Public meetings on Tulsa’s Equality Indicators will begin in mid-May.
City councilors agreed last week to hold four special meetings to look into racial disparities in policing identified in the report. Meeting dates have not been finalized.
Each special meeting will follow an abbreviated regular council meeting. Those are held Wednesdays at 5 p.m. The special meetings will feature a panel of experts and professionals the council will hear from and ask questions of.
The council will receive public comments for Equality Indicator special meetings at the regular council meeting the week before.
Each special meeting will focus on a specific indicator:
- May: racial and gender disparities in adult arrests
- June: racial and gender disparities in juvenile arrests
- July: racial disparities in police use of force
- August: minority and gender underrepresentation in the Tulsa Police Department
The special meetings will be held after the 2019 edition of the Equality Indicators are released in April.
