Sweeney-Miran said in an interview Wednesday that she has had both positive and negative experiences with police. I’m so tired of nonprofits and neighbors and GoFundMe doing the work our governments should be doing while my taxes pay for sirens and fear and brutality,” she said in another 2022 post on Twitter. Instead of social service networks we get cops. Instead of mental health services we get cops. “Of course we cannot trust police to monitor themselves nor to report honestly on their behaviors and crimes - we cannot trust them to conduct a traffic stop without committing murder,” Sweeney-Miran said on Twitter in 2022. Sweeney-Miran’s social media posts featured in Neslage’s complaint include references to a book about abolishing police and say police cannot be trusted to monitor themselves. “The ordinance is the ordinance and if we don’t follow the law, what good is it?” Neslage said. He’s not opposed to civilian oversight and said he has nothing personally against Sweeney-Miran, but said the selection committee should have appointed someone else instead of her. In an interview Wednesday, Neslage said the lawsuit and Sweeney-Miran’s social media posts constitute a clear record of her bias and conflicts of interest. ![]() Sweeney-Miran - executive director of Mother House homeless shelter and vice president of the Boulder Valley School District’s Board of Education - removed herself from the lawsuit five days after being appointed to the panel. ![]() “If we don’t follow the law, what good is it?”Ĭomplaints filed against the oversight panel by Boulder residents John Neslage and Emily Reynolds allege Sweeney-Miran’s social media posts show she is biased against police and her participation in the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado’s lawsuit against the city over its treatment of people who are homeless represents a conflict of interest. “My heartfelt concern over past instances of police violence, and that I am open to alternatives to police responses when force is not needed, does not make me biased - it makes me the sort of thoughtful person who is intended to be on Boulder’s Police Oversight Panel,” she said on Twitter. Sweeney-Miran refused and insists she hasn’t done anything wrong. The selection committee and the council previously reaffirmed the decision to impanel Sweeney-Miran, but an outside investigator last month recommended she resign. ![]() The City Council will weigh whether having opinions on police reform counts as bias and should disqualify someone from participating on a panel tasked with improving the Boulder Police Department. ![]() The vote follows a $20,000 investigation into complaints filed by Boulder residents that the group that selected Sweeney-Miran failed to properly consider her advocacy for police reform and involvement in a lawsuit against the city for forcibly removing tents from people experiencing homelessness. That’s the question the Boulder City Council will consider Thursday when it decides whether to remove Lisa Sweeney-Miran from the city’s Police Oversight Panel. Should a community leader who has advocated for reallocating tax money away from law enforcement and said officers can’t be trusted serve on a police oversight panel? Lisa Sweeney-Miran (Photo via Boulder Valley School District) Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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