NEWS ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Scotty Boman, D.R.A.C.O. Founder
Phone: (313) 247-2052
scottyboman@hotmail.com
Draco.Life
June 19th , 2020
Ashley Smith
Victim's Sister
justice4sheldy@gmail.com
#Justice4Sheldy #JusticeForSheldy
News Conference
June 19th at 3:45 PM
Detroit Public Safety Headquarters
1301 Third Ave. Detroit.
Civilian Oversight Advocate Blocked from Comments, Complains to Inspector General
Detroit, MI – Scotty Boman, founder of Detroit Residents Advancing Civilian Oversight (DRACO) has been blocked from public comments by Jermaine Wyrick. He also submitted a complaint to the Detroit Office of Inspector General about this and an additional violation of the open meetings act.
His first complaint cites the portion of the Michigan Open Meetings Act which reads.
“A person shall be permitted to address a meeting of a public body under rules established and recorded by the public body.
A person shall not be excluded from a meeting otherwise open to the public except for a breach of the peace actually committed at the meeting.”
Boman complains that Detroit Board of Police Commissioners (BOPC) attorney Jermaine Wyrick independently blocked him from public comments without any direction from the Board of police commissioners as a whole and under false pretenses. His complaint is attached to this news release and details his specific grievances.
The complaint also asserts that the Board of Police Commissioners violated the Michigan Open Meetings Act by requiring members of the community to identify themselves to gain admission to the meeting thereby violating the section that reads,
“A person shall not be required as a condition of attendance at a meeting of a public body to register or otherwise provide his or her name or other information or otherwise to fulfill a condition precedent to attendance.”
In the complaint he points to an “abrupt change” in the boards use of the Zoom application whereby a person can’t gain direct access without entering an email address. There is a telephone option but Boman found, “The BOPC made use of public safety technology to bypass the *67 feature so they could learn the identity of callers.”
Ashley Smith, victim of police brutality victim Sheldy Smith, was also present at the meeting and complained about being periodically passed over during public comments in the past.
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