From: "<email obscured>" <
<email obscured>>
Date: Oct 26, 2015 1:27 PM
Subject: [ogp] Join us for panels on police transparency on Oct 27, 5pm,
and Oct 29, 2pm - we'll have simultaneous translation
To: "OGP Civil Society group" <<email obscured>>
Cc: "Robert Gregory Michener" <<email obscured>>, "Rafael Antonio
Braem Velasco" <<email obscured>>
Just to note â weâll have simultaneous translation Spanish/English/Spanish
for both of these panels.
*From:* Sandra Coliver
*Sent:* Monday, October 26, 2015 11:48 AM
*To:* OGP Civil Society group
*Cc:* Robert Gregory Michener; Rafael Antonio Braem Velasco
*Subject:* Join us for panels on police transparency on Oct 27, 5pm, and
Oct 29, 2pm
Dear Colleagues interested in Police Transparency:
We hope that many of you will join us for two panels on police transparency
â one during the civil society day, and one during the main summit.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 5 pm: âPolice Transparencyâ, SalĂłn de Maestros
<http://csoday2015.sched.org/venue/Sal%C3%B3n+de+Maestros>
http://ogpsummit.org/cso.html
Participants will discuss projects involving access to information held by
the police, with the aims of (a) examining the impact, or potential impact,
of such projects, and (2) sharing ideas about ways to encourage governments
to develop and implement OGP commitments on policing. Can increased
transparency concerning policing lead to improved policies, respect for
rights, or other policing outcomes?
*Prof. Juan Salgado and Prof. Gregory Michener* will discuss the
methodology and results of a multi-country study on access to information
concerning policing of protests, including results from Brazil, India,
England/Scotland, Mexico and South Africa. *Helen Darbishire* will describe
Access Info Europeâs project to obtain information from 42 European
countries also about the policing of protests.* Zoe Reiter*, Americas
Regional Program Manager of Transparency International, will talk about
TI's work on police transparency. *Evelyn Villarreal*, Vice President of
Costa Rica Integra, a chapter of TI, will discuss her work on police
transparency and accountability in Costa Rica, and trends across Central
America. *Jesse Franzblau* will address the question as to why donât we
know how many people the police kill in the USA each year, and the
importance of data in holding police accountable. We look forward to
hearing about other projects involving security sector transparency,
including monitoring websites of security sector agencies.
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2 pm: âAccess to Information and Improved Policing:
Results of a Multi-Country Study and other OGP Effortsâ â Palacio de MinerĂa
<http://ogpsummit2015.sched.org/venue/Palacio+de+Miner%C3%ADa> *(Calle de
Tacuba 5, Centro, Mexico CIty
<http://ogpsummit2015.sched.org/event/2fb9f316cad131605c381d9ac50de824>
C3 â 65 attendees have already signed up.
http://ogpsummit2015.sched.org/event/2fb9f316cad131605c381d9ac50de824#.Vi5CgrerTcs
- Dante Preisser, Head of the Open Government Unit of the Attorney
General of Mexico, will discuss implementation of Mexicoâs commitment to
create public registries of persons in detention and missing persons.
- Mark Wise, UK, Manager of the National Police FOI & Data Protection
Central Referral Unit, will discuss the UKâs OGP commitment to make more
police records publicly accessible, and other steps the police are taking,
including to publish information on a monthly basis about stops and
searches by neighborhood, https://data.police.uk/data/stop-and-search/;
work with contractors to post information proactively,
https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1043530/outsourcing-and-freedom-of-information.pdf;
and improve the ways that police forces collect, record, evaluate, review
and improve the quality of information.
- Dr. Juan Salgado (Mexico), Professor, Legal Studies Department, Centro
de InvestigaciĂłn y Docencia EconĂłmicas (CIDE), will discuss police
transparency in Mexico.
- Prof. Gregory Michener, Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN),
based at GetĂșlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (FGV), will discuss
the results of the first phase of a multi-country (Brazil, Mexico, South
Africa, UK) study on policing of protests. Are others interested to join?
The panels have two main objectives:
1) To start a conversation about the kinds of information/data that
police forces in democratic societies should collect, generate, maintain,
share with other departments, and make available to the public; and
stimulate thinking about how police and other law enforcement authorities
might improve information management and public disclosure, with the
ultimate objective of promoting fairer and more effective policing and
improved communication between the police and the communities they serve.
2) To motivate governments to include commitments in their national
action plans, and to work together with civil society to include and
implement commitments aimed at improving policing outcomes and making
communities safer.
*If you are interested but canât attend, please email Greg Michener or me*.
We can send you presentations and hand-outs, and if youâre interested, we
can add you to a small list-serve of people interested in sharing
information about police transparency and accountability efforts.
We look forward to seeing many of you soon!
Sandra
Sandra Coliver l Senior Legal Officer, Freedom of Information & Expression
Open Society Justice Initiative l Open Society Foundations
224 West 57th Street l New York, NY 10019 USA
office: +1 212 548 0384 l mobile: 1 917 361 5618 l skype: @SandyColiver
www.opensocietyfoundations.org/search?key=coliver
www.right2info.org
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