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John Kennedy Jr. is the independent police oversight board's first permanent director since 2023.

John Kennedy Jr. is about a month into the job as director of the Cincinnati Citizen Complaint Authority. He's the first permanent director in over two years.

The Citizen Complaint Authority has been without a permanent director since August 2023.

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge spoke in a virtual public meeting Friday about the police shooting of an 18-year-old earlier this month.

That’s one finding in the Citizen Complaint Authority's latest "Patterns and Recommendations" report, covering 2021 and 2022.

Gabe Davis will be the new CEO of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center. Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long says she'll conduct a nationwide search for a new director of the Citizen Complaint Authority.

Cincinnati’s independent police oversight board nearly doubled the number of completed investigations last year. The Citizen Complaint Authority has been digging out of a backlog of hundreds of cases for several years.

Cincinnati’s independent police oversight board completed nearly 80 investigations into officer misconduct last year. That’s over 70% more than the year before, as the Citizen Complaint Authority tries to get through a huge backlog in cases.

The city’s independent police oversight board investigates complaints against officers of the Cincinnati Police Department. Years of underfunding caused a backlog of over a hundred cases more than a year old.

Cincinnati's independent police oversight board now allows anyone being interviewed during an investigation to make their own audio recording of the conversation. The previous policy is the subject of a lawsuit filed by FOP President Dan Hils last year.