Nashville’s first-ever Community Oversight Board—a committee that will review and investigate complaints of police misconduct that voters approved by an overwhelming margin in a November 2018 referendum—will stand, according to a unanimous opinion from the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The Fraternal Order of Police and other opponents of police oversight had sought to invalidate the results of the election, claiming that the referendum should never have been submitted to voters. Advocates of the oversight board were represented by Nashville attorneys Daniel Horwitz and Jamie Hollin.
“The FOP’s attempt to invalidate a free election and strip 134,135 people of their vote has been rejected yet again,” Community Oversight Now attorneys Jamie Hollin and Daniel Horwitz said in a statement to The Tennessean. “We are pleased that Metro’s Community Oversight Board will be permitted to do the important work that voters demanded.”
The Metro Council will begin considering nominations to the Board immediately.
Daniel Horwitz is a campaign finance and election lawyer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Selected case documents and media reports about the case are available below. If you would like to purchase a consultation from Horwitz, you can do so using the following form:
Selected Case Documents and Media Coverage:
- *Court of Appeals Memorandum Opinion Affirming Judgment
- –FOP Court of Appeals Brief
- –Metro Court of Appeals Brief
- –Community Oversight Now Court of Appeals Brief
- *Tennessee Supreme Court Order Denying FOP’s Rule 10 Application
- –FOP Rule 10 Application
- –Community Oversight Now Rule 10 Response
- The Tennessean: Community oversight board belonged on the Nashville ballot, appeals court says; vote stands