Details on a Fresno officer fatally shooting a dog that had attacked a woman and her dog were included this month in an independent auditor’s report of the Fresno Police Department, which has fired six officers this year.
The Office of Independent Review released its first report in 2026 this week after more than a year without the quarterly review of police misconduct and officer-involved shootings. The office released a report every three months since it got its first full-time auditor in 2017 in John Gliatta, who retired in August 2025.
The former FBI agent of 27 years was tasked with reviewing police misconduct investigations and other police-related matters. He was rehired temporarily on Aug. 24 this year after the city had failed for a year to find a replacement…