Category Archives: Press Releases

The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Public Safety Section has issued a review of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD or the Department) management of School Resource Officers (SRO) assigned to Chicago Public Schools (CPS). OIG concluded that CPD’s recruitment, selection, placement, training, specification of roles and responsibilities, and evaluations of its SROs are not sufficient […]

The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed a follow-up to its September 2017 audit of the City’s compliance with the Language Access Ordinance (LAO). Based on the Department’s responses, OIG concludes that the City has only partially implemented corrective actions related to findings. The 2017 audit determined that the City was […]

Today, the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has unveiled a public, user-friendly Information Portal on its redesigned website. This portal is an interactive data visualization tool that provides the public with an unprecedented means of engaging and understanding City of Chicago data. The portal dashboards contain over 100 ways for users to […]

The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Public Safety (PS) section has issued a report recommending that the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) revisit its practice on releasing reports while a disciplinary case is still under review by the Superintendent, in order to better assure the balancing of interests of transparency and […]

The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its second quarter report for 2018 to the City Council. The report summarizes the Office’s activity from April 1, 2018 through June 30, 2018. This quarter’s report contains summaries of concluded OIG investigations, inquiries, and other activities, including: An OIG investigation which established that […]

The City of Chicago Inspector General has nominated Joseph Lipari for the position of Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety. Lipari serves as Assistant Inspector General for the Office of the Inspector General – New York Police Department (IG-NYPD) under the New York City Department of Investigation. In this position, Lipari led investigations into NYPD’s […]