Consent decree filings

This is an archive of key documents submitted to the Federal Court on the Seattle consent decree case, particularly related to accountability and Seattle police contracts. For other court filings, please email the Community Police Commission at OCPC@Seattle.gov.

2024

• October 9, 2024 | Amicus Curiae Community Police Commission’s Memorandum on Accountability Issues
• September 25, 2024 | Federal Court Document 804 Order Regarding Status Hearing Topics
• September 6, 2024 | Seattle Police Monitor: Memorandum on Status of Seattle Consent Decree and Deliverables from 2023 Court Order
• April 29, 2024 | City of Seattle's Notice re Tentative Agreement Reached with Seattle Police Officers Guild
• March 29, 2024 | Seattle Police Monitor: Memo on Seattle Court Order Progress
• February 29, 2024 | OIG: Seattle Police Department Use of Force Assessment

• January 29, 2024 | Community Police Commission’s Memorandum and Exhibit Commenting on Monitor's December 2023 Report

• January 29, 2024 | City of Seattle’s Response to Monitor’s Acountability Assessment

2023

• December 29, 2023 | Seattle Police Monitor - Seattle Accountability System Sustainability Assessment

• December 15, 2023 | Seattle Police Department Report to Court

• December 6, 2023 | Memo from SPD to Monitor and DOJ regarding Crowd Management Policy

• September 6, 2023 | VIDEO: USA vs. City of Seattle, 12-cv-1282-JLR, Grant Joint Stipulated Motion to Approve Compliance Agreement, Civil Rights, 9/6/2023, 11:00 AM (PDT), Seattle Courthouse, Seattle, WA, Judge James L. Robart presiding.

• September 6, 2023 | Verbatim Transcript of Proceedings before the Honorable James L. Robart, United States District Judge

• September 7, 2023 | Case 2:12-cv-01282-JLR Document 769, Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Joint Motion to Approve Proposed Agreement on Sustained Compliance

• July 28, 2023 | Seattle Police Department - Sentinel Event Review - Comprehensive Response

• May 25 | Federal Police Monitor: Dr. Antonio Oftellie, Seattle Police Monitor Response to submision of analysis on Seattle Officer Involved Shootings

• May 17, 2023 | Defendant City of Seattle's Response to Briefs of Amici Curiae

• April 26, 2023 | Brief of Amicus Curiae Community Police Commission in Support of Joint Motion to Approve Compliance Agreement

• Mar 28 | Remarks by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke on Policing Reform Efforts for the City of Seattle and Seattle Police Department

• March 28, 2023 | Agreement on Sustained Compliance and Stipulated [proposed] Order of Resolution, Case 2:12-cv-01282-JLR Document 727

• March 28, 2023 | Joint Motion to Approve Compliance Agreement, Case 2:12-cv-01282-JLR Document 727

• March 23, 2023 | Seattle Police Department  - Seattle EAQ Evaluation Final Report

2022

• May, 2022 | Seattle Police Monitor - Comprehensive Assessment of the Seattle Police Department

• April, 2022 | Article: Measurement of Potential Over- and Under-policing in Communities

2021

• August 3, 2021 | Seattle Police Monitor 2021 Semi-annual Report

• July 27, 2021 | CPC request that the Court require parties to address the status of efforts to bring the City into compliance on accountability, Case 2:12-cv-01282-JLR Document 676

• June 2, 2021 | CPC Follow-up Regarding the Monitor Plan and Draft Assessment Methodology

• April 23, 2021 | Seattle Police Monitor 2021 Plan and Methodology

• April 7, 2021 | CPC Questions and Feedback Regarding the Monitor Plan and Draft Assessment Methodology

• February 3, 2021 | 2021 Monitoring Plan requirements, milestones, deliverables, and deadlines related to Consent Decree oversight and implementation

2020

• June 9 | CPC response to motion to terminate substantive commitments of the Consent Decree

• May 7 | City, DOJ motion to terminate substantive commitments of Consent Decree
• January 6 | CPC response to 21CP's (consultant) assessment of police accountability

2019

• December 13 | 21CP's (consultant) assessment of Seattle's police accountability system
• September 18 | Community organizations' letter on SPMA contract public hearing
• August 19 | CPC's response to City's proposed methodology
• August 15 | City of Seattle's stipulated motion to approve acountability methodology
• May 21 | Order finding City of Seattle partially out of compliance with the Consent Decree
• March 6 | City's reply brief on Court's Order to Show Cause
• February 20 | CPC's response to Court's Order to Show Cause
  • February 20 | Declaration of Judge Anne Levinson (Ret.) in support of CPC's response to Court's Order
• February 13 | United States (DOJ) response to Court's Order to Show Cause

2018

• December 17 | City's response to Court's Order to Show Cause
  • Exhibit A Seattle Police Management Association 2014-2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement
  • Exhibit B Seattle Police Officers Guild 2015-2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement
  • Exhibit C Seattle Police Officers Guild Comparison Between 2010-2014 and 2015-2020 Collective Bargaining Agreements
  • Exhibit D City Council Resolution Number 31855
  • Exhibit E Accountability Ordinance, Annotated
  • Exhibit F Seattle Police Officers Guild (on behalf of Shepherd) v. City of Seattle, SPD
    Disciplinary Review Board’s Opinion and Award, SPD’s Post-Hearing Brief, and SPOG’s Post-Hearing Brief
  • Exhibit G City of Seattle, SPD v. Seattle Police Officers Guild, Arbitrator Wilkinson, and Shepherd City’s Application for Writ of Review or Certiorari
  • Exhibit H Excerpt, Elkouri & Elkouri, How Arbitration Works (8th Ed. 2016)
  • Exhibit I Seattle Police Department’s Discipline and Appeals Process
• December 3 | Court Order to Show Cause, whether City has failed to maintain compliance with Consent Decree
• November 30 | City of Seattle's Notice of Final Collective Bargainings Agreement and Proposed Path Forward
• October 29 | CPC Letter to the Court commenting on the tentative agreement (TA) between the City of Seattle with the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG)
• October 29 | United States' Response to the Court's Order Regarding the Tentative Agreement Between SPOG and the City of Seattle
• October 29 | City of Seattle's Memoraindum in Response to Court's October 23, 2018 Order

2017

• December 8 | CPC letter to Judge Robart regarding full and effective compliance, 

• CPC response to City's motion to declare it in full and effective compliance

• October 13 | CPC letter to Judge Robart regarding City's motion to declare it in compliance
• January 6 | Order Regarding Accountability Legislation

For older court filings, please email the Community Police Commission at OCPC@Seatte.gov