And the city's public advocate has also suggested creating
the inspector general position.
Nassau County Legislative Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves, seen on March 21, 2016, called the legislature's vote Monday to create
an inspector general position a compromise.
She vowed, if elected mayor, to work with the court - appointed monitor to implement changes, promising to use the new police
inspector general position proposed by the council to «review and provide guidance to ensure that stop and frisk is done in a constitutionally sound manner.»
De Blasio called for not only
the inspector general position to be created, but for the veto of a bill banning racial bias by the police department to be overridden by the council.
Singas and legislative Democrats say
the inspector general position, which wouldn't answer to the county executive, is still needed.
Not exact matches
Also Monday, the legislature agreed to advertise for an independent
inspector general — a
position advocated by Democrats and later Republicans after former State Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, were convicted in 2015 on corruption charges involving a Nassau contract.
He called for transparency in budgeting and contracting, and said the Democrats want to create an independent
inspector general's
position in the town to oversee contracting.
In a March 2 letter to Abrahams, Mangano said an
inspector general is unnecessary because it would have the «same investigative authority» as the county commissioner of investigations, a
position Foskey holds.
Although an
inspector general already exists within the Department of Investigation, aides to the speaker said Mark - Viverito's proposal would codify the
position into law and be modeled after the
inspector general the council helped create for the NYPD in 2013.
Maragos said he would also impose a limit of two terms for countywide office holders and four terms for legislators; consolidate the county's procurement compliance and purchasing director
positions; and replace Nassau's commissioner of investigations with an independent
inspector general for contracting — an idea pushed by Democratic lawmakers for years.
She also recommended implementing a technological platform to track contracts and streamline the submission of financial disclosure, and called on the county Legislature to eliminate the
position of Commissioner of Investigations, and replace it with an independent county
inspector general.
Bloomberg also would not say whether his
position against having an NYPD
inspector general played any role in his decision - making process.
Quinn also defended her
position on installing an
inspector general to oversee the NYPD.
It included «all non-school-based certificated administrators, confidential employees, and supervisory employees» and could also have included high - level certificated
positions in the offices of
general counsel, the financial officer, human resources, information officer, police department, facilities program,
inspector general, and superintendent's office.