After losing half of the Board last summer due to a wave of resignations, the Charlottesville Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB) finally filled all of its seats and is planning to review its first case next month.
The Board has never, in the seven years since the ordinance guiding its work was passed by the City Council, reviewed a case — one of the main functions the community rallied for it to perform, said PCOB’s new chair, Jeffrey Fracher.
Now, with a full board, the chair plans to steer it toward active work and community engagement while the Board is considering a new oversight model that reviews internal police investigations rather than conducting its own…