Asked the City Manager to work with the Law Department and CPD to report to the City Council on all outstanding and recent (last 5 fiscal years: FY’23,’22,’21,’20,’19) lawsuits involving the CPD or individual members of CPD that the City is expending or has expended resources on, including an estimate of how much has been spent on these lawsuits to date in FY24

How it started

Aug 7, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Quinton Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Aug 7, 2023 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS”

Sep 11, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted, 5–4. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

View the roll call

Voted yes (5)

Burhan Azeem
Alanna Mallon
Patty Nolan
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (4)

Dennis Carlone
Marc McGovern
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner

Roll call of Sep 11, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2023 #54 open, 1,074 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Aug 7, 2023