Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
City Hall has few details on replacing police oversight agency head Sharon Fairley
Mayor Rahm Emanuel “declined to say how much input community members will have in finding a new head of the just-launched police oversight agency that’s a key piece of his effort to increase public trust in the Chicago Police Department” following the resignation of Civilian Office of Police Accountability chief Sharon Fairley, according to the Tribune. Fairley is leaving the newly opened COPA agency to run for Illinois attorney general as a Democrat. “We’re going to have a process to—I’m going to be naming a process, working with a lot of different people, working, and I’ve had a number of discussions with individuals about how to create a process that has input to have a set of names that reflect, I think, the independence and authority that we’ve built over the past 22 months,” Emanuel told reporters. The mayor says he will be naming an interim replacement “shortly.” [Tribune]
