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Beetlejuice appoints police reform advocate to lead new civilian oversight board

Adam Gross comes with decades of experience in advocating for structural reforms and most recently served as the director of the Police Accountability Program of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest.

By Manny Ramos@_ManuelRamos_ Jan 10, 2022, 12:32pm CST

Adam Gross (center) of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest was tapped to lead city’s new police oversight board. Rich Hein/Sun-Times


The city’s first civilian-led police oversight panel now has its first executive director.

Adam Gross, an attorney and longtime police

reform advocate, was appointed to that role on Monday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Lightfoot called the creation of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability a “historic milestone” and expressed her confidence in Gross’ ability to run the agency.

“Under Adam’s leadership, the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will become a critically important piece of our city’s police accountability infrastructure and empower our communities to take the lead in this incredibly important work,” Lightfoot was quoted as saying in a news release.

Gross has decades of experience in advocating for structural reforms. Most recently, he has been director of the Police Accountability Program of the nonprofit group Business and Professional People for the Public Interest. BPI, according to its website, “advocates for racial and economic equity through its four program areas: Housing, Justice Reform, Police Accountability, and Early Childhood Education.”

Since 2016, Gross has also provided legal, policy and technical support to the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability — an organization that fought for a civilian oversight panel.

“I am honored and humbled to serve Chicago as the first-ever Executive Director of the newly created Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability,” Gross was quoted as saying in the news release. “Independent, civilian-led oversight of our police department and police accountability agencies is more important than ever before.”

The ordinance, passed last summer, establishes a two-tiered model for civilian oversight that includes a public seven-person panel whose members serve four-year terms.

The City Council will nominate 14 people for spots on the civilian oversight panel; from that list, the mayor will the seven who will serve as interim commissioners until the first regular commission is appointed.

Gross will manage the team that supports the commission and district councils while serving as a liaison and primary point of contact between the police department and the city’s other oversight boards.

There also will be three-member elected councils in each of the city’s 22 police districts.

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