Who We Are

Germain Thompson was appointed as the Community Liaison in December of 2022 and established the Office of the Community Liaison, an independent office based in NYC with a team of community organizers to fulfill the mission: to seek, receive, and organize concerns from NYC community members impacted by stop-and-frisk. 

OCL will listen to your feedback and communicate it to the Federal Monitor, 

Mylan Denerstein, and the Court. Therefore, they can better assess the city's and the NYPD's compliance with the court-ordered remedial measures. Notably, the Community Liaison's role does not include investigating allegations of misconduct by the NYPD; 

such allegations, if brought to the Community Liaison's attention, will be referred to the agencies responsible for investigating such allegations. 

A decade has passed since a federal judge found that the New York City Police Department was liable for violating the constitutional rights of individuals with respect to policing practices involving stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement in certain residential buildings. The federal judge issued a “remedial order” requiring the city to engage in a remedial process to reform the NYPD’s unconstitutional practices and appointing a Monitor to oversee this remedial process. 

With the NYPD still not fully in compliance with the Court’s remedial order, the Monitor proposed the appointment of an independent Community Liaison to engage communities most affected by these NYPD practices and to provide more opportunities for these impacted communities to be heard.