Cameron Perez-Rodilla
5:34 - 6:11
“investigative commissions are fundamentally different than what we're talking about here. That they require investigators, attorneys, independent budgets, staffing, legal authority, and very different governance structure.”
- Speaker
- Cameron Perez-Rodilla
- Timestamp
- 5:34 – 6:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 14, 2026
From the transcript
Their experiences deserve to be heard. Second, we heard calls for subpoena power, calls for investigative authority, and requests for a traditional civilian oversight body. My, my co-sponsor and I spent considerable time researching many national models and consulting with NACOL, which is a national organization that supports civil civilian oversight. We went through these versions with them and talked with them, and what we learned was that investigative commissions are fundamentally different than what we're talking about here. That they require investigators, attorneys, independent budgets, staffing, legal authority, and very different governance structure.
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