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NAACP, ACLU May Be At Next Meeting Of Jail Review Panel

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By JOSH POLTILOVE | The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 17, 2008

TAMPA - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- and possibly the American Civil Liberties Union -- is expected to attend the next meeting of the commission designed to independently review Hillsborough County's jail system, according to the commission's chairman.

The commission was created in February after a surveillance video was released that shows inmate Brian Sterner being dumped from a wheelchair by a detention deputy who was trying to search him. Sterner, who is paralyzed from the chest down, had been arrested on a traffic-related charge.

The commission will release its final report Sept. 2.

Before then, commissioners will review random samples of internal affairs investigations, use-of-force investigations and inmate grievances, commission chairman Jim Sewell said.

The commission's next meeting is slated for 10 a.m. Aug. 1 on the 18th floor of the Fred B. Karl County Center, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Reporter Josh Poltilove can be reached at jpoltilove@tampatrib.com or (813) 259-7691.

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