Aurora police officials will use a hybrid community/online meeting in Aurora Tuesday to update the public on progress the department has made under the consent decree monitorship and open up the forum to public questions and comments.

The meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 24, in-person at the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Pkwy in the Paul Tauer City Council Chamber, and online at AuroraGov.org/ConsentDecree.

Those who wish the view the meeting without participating can tune in at YouTube.com/TheAuroraChannel, AuroraTV.org or Comcast Cable channels 8 or 880.

The city entered into the consent decree, a legal agreement between the City of Aurora and the Colorado Attorney General jointly entered that monitors Aurora’s implementation of “sweeping public safety reform,” in November of 2021.

As the decree’s two-year mark approaches, Aurora’s Community Advisory Council, a group of community leaders, will provide information on the progress being made under the monitorship at Tuesday’s meeting.

IntegrAssure, named the consent decree monitor in February 2022, issued its fifth and latest report on Oct. 15. The report is available at AuroraMonitor.org and the public is encouraged to submit questions and comments in advance of the meeting by email to [email protected] or via the Contact Us form at AuroraMonitor.org no later than 12 p.m. (noon) Tuesday.

The city is tasked with developing and implementing changes during the first two years of the five-year decree. IntegrAssure is monitoring Aurora’s police and fire departments for the last three years of the agreement — or longer if it decides the city is not upholding the consent decree requirements.

The decree came after Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office announced that an investigation into the city’s police and fire departments found a pattern of racially biased policing, among other civil rights concerns.

The investigation called for reforms of first responders’ use of force practices, investigative practices and use of chemical sedatives. The office’s investigation also found needed changes in recruiting, hiring and promotional practices, along with a greater need for accountability and transparency.

Aurora police Officer Nathan Woodyard is currently on trial facing reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, 23.

A jury convicted Officer Randy Roedema on Oct. 12 of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault, the least serious charges he faced, but acquitted former officer Jason Rosenblatt on all counts. Paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec are scheduled to be prosecuted in the final trial in connection with McClain’s death next month.