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A proposed $3.75 billion city operating budget for fiscal year 2022 unveiled by acting Mayor Kim Janey Wednesday would continue to cut the Boston Police Department’s overtime spending by about $21 million of what the agency is expected to spend this fiscal year. The budget comes as the city works to roll out recommendations generated by a task force on how to reform its police department following the nationwide movement against police brutality and racial injustice last year. Advertisement However, city officials have struggled — and failed — to keep police overtime spending in line...

OPAT will provide independent oversight and advise on policing policy and reforms BOSTON - Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - Mayor Kim Janey announced at a press conference this afternoon that Stephanie Everett will serve as the Executive Director of the newly created Office of Police Accountability and Transparency (OPAT). Everett, an attorney who currently runs her own private practice specializing in criminal, care and protection, residential real estate, and business formation matters, will lead the office charged with implementing an ambitious set of community-driven reforms to policing in Bosto...

Janey Names Director For Boston’s New Police Accountability Office Attorney Stephanie Everett will lead the effort to keep the Boston Police Department clean and restore public trust. Updated 5:38 p.m. A day after a political hue and cry arose to release internal affairs files related to a former Boston Police union president accused of child abuse, acting Mayor Kim Janey named an executive director to lead the new Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, or OPAT, which she said will begin its work by conducting a review of the accused officer. Stephanie Everett, a Boston attorn...

Kim Janey also promised to shine a spotlight on a decades-old sex abuse investigation of a former Boston Police Patrolmen's Association president.

By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service April 13, 2021 Chris Lisinski, State House News Service Aiming to repair the "fabric of trust" between police and communities of color, Boston Mayor Kim Janey unveiled a series of reforms Tuesday including the launch of a new law enforcement oversight office tasked out of the gate with reviewing the case of a former top officer who kept his job after allegedly sexually assaulting a child. Janey announced that her fiscal year 2022 budget recommendation set to be released Wednesday would slash Boston Police Department overtime spending by $21 million,...