The head of Atlanta’s police oversight board is revamping the process to investigate police deadly force cases amid expressions of alarm by the mayor and City Council for his agency’s past inaction.
The overhaul includes a memorandum of understanding with the Atlanta Police Department on how and when the board will get deadly force cases to investigate. Lee Reid, the board’s executive director, is expected to appear Monday before a city council committee to report on why his agency has conducted no deadly force investigations in four years.
The changes are in response to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation that revealed the board failed to investigate more than three dozen police shootings and in-custody deaths since 2020. Some cases languished even after police had finished their internal affairs reviews and the district attorney decided not to charge officers…