2019-12-11 Regular Session Minutes

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there's like a six weeks or...there are two letters. 1 mean that's why I asked, is this being raised by the...possibly the Police Commission? But if... Ms. Hall: No complaints have been filed with the Police Commission at this time. Mr. Heintz: One of the charges to the ethics committee is to investigate...also to investigate when issues are brought forward. And I'm concerned that this is...shouldn't at least...shouldn't go...simply go away. It's a serious allegation. Mr. Wiseman: I think while Mr. Roth is here, incidentally this letter referred...mentioned your name in here too. Mr. Heintz: Did you receive this letter, Mr. Roth? Mr. Roth: [Inaudible] Mr. Heintz: That's a September 30th letter and a November 14th letter. Both letters I believe use your name. Ms. Sumner-Mack: I'm wondering if it's appropriate to...to bring this up to him. He's here for a different...a totally different person...reason. Mr. Roth: So I don't think I received either of these letters. However...I can't talk on this case. But you should know that it's not uncommon for cases to be under investigation and the public doesn't really have any information. Mr. Heintz: Right. Mr. Roth: It's inappropriate for the Police or the Prosecutors Office to make comments on those cases because it has... It could have a chilling effect of changing testimony or around or anything like that and so. Without saying more, if you just have the parameters and I think the Judge realizes this too. Is that sometimes it takes us a while to charge this cases. Right now we're getting cases from about three, four months ago into our office. Those cases get assigned to a deputy. Our screening unit...those deputies have you know over a hundred case each and so...during those periods of time...no information will be given out about any of those cases. And so looking at this letter...you can't tell what is going on. Mr. Wiseman: It is very possible the system is working. 6