City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
To the Mayor, City Council, City Clerk, City Treasurer, and Community Members of the City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the third quarter of 2022, filed with City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
This report marks the first full quarter since I took office; we are in the midst of internal changes and improvements—the full impact of which will emerge over the quarters to come. This report reflects the operationalization of our newly integrated, centralized intake function, which is allowing us to better capture information that comes to OIG in all forms, and to best meet the concerns of those whom we serve. As reflected in our planned budget for next year, we are expanding staffing and capacity to broaden the data analysis work that is so critical to our transparency mandate, and to shorten the timelines of our misconduct investigations.
In the meantime, we continue our work in pursuit of more effective, efficient, and accountable government. During this quarter, we pursued discipline for City employees who failed to report misconduct, among others, and audited critical City services. Also, during this quarter, I nominated, and the City Council confirmed, Tobara Richardson as the City's new Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety. Tobara joins us to lead a section doing urgent work in the service of Chicago's police reform and violence reduction efforts. During this quarter, among other work, the Public Safety section's publication of an analysis of consecutive days worked by Chicago Police Department (CPD) members was immediately followed by a change in CPD policy around the cancellation of days off. Also, in the course of fulfilling its mandate to review police misconduct investigations conducted by CPD's Bureau of Internal Affairs and the Civilian Office of Police Acc...
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