1. Ron Steinkamp
Partner, Advisory Services
Brown Smith Wallace LLC
314.983.1238
rsteinkamp@bswllc.com
6 City Place Drive, Suite 900
St. Louis, Missouri 63141

2.  The Ferguson Commission
 16 Commissioners appointed by the Governor
 Hundreds of citizens provided input at meetings and by participating in
working groups
 Study of underlying issues brought to light by events in Ferguson
 Report applies to the whole St. Louis region
 4 Signature Priorities and 189 Calls to Action
 Commission has no power to enact
 Report is not a step-by-step solution
 Report provides an outline of a path forward = serve as a springboard to conversation
and action
 Living document
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Background on the Report
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3. Signature Priorities
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 Justice for All
 Police Report
 Court Reform
 Youth at the Center
 Supporting the whole child
 Ending hunger for children and families
 Reforming school discipline
 Improving child health

4. Signature Priorities
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 Opportunity to Thrive
 Economic mobility
 Expanding Medicaid
 Employment
 Financial empowerment
 Housing
 Transportation
 Racial Equity
 Intentional investments and practices aimed to build infrastructure
and connective

5. Justice For All. Signature Calls To Action
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 Use of Force
 Assign Attorney General as special prosecutor
 Assign MO Highway Patrol to investigate
 Update use of force statute for fleeing suspects
 Establish use of force database
 Revise use of force policies and training

6. Justice For All. Signature Calls To Action
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 Training
 Include social interaction training in Peace Officer Standards Training
(POST)
 Increase police training hours
 Include implicit bias and cultural responsiveness training in POST
 Consolidate police training centers
 Civilian Review
 Create civilian review boards at the municipal level
 Create civilian review boards at the County level

7. Justice For All. Signature Calls To Action
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 Response to Demonstration
 Develop a comprehensive demonstration response plan
 Court Reform
 Eliminate incarceration for minor offenses
 Establish alternative sentencing options
 Treat nonviolent offenses as civil violations
 Collect Municipal court debts like civil debts
 Create community justice centers

8. Justice For All. Signature Calls To Action
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 Constitutional Rights
 Inform defendants of rights to counsel
 Assign public defenders for criminally charged minors
 Train municipal court, jail, and government employees in
constitutional rights
 Consolidation
 Consolidate law enforcement agencies
 Consolidate municipal courts

9. Youth At The Center. Signature Calls To Action
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 Supporting the Whole Child
 Establish school based health centers
 Reform school discipline policies
 End hunger for children and families
 Education Infrastructure Reform
 Support early childhood education
 Create an innovative education hub
 Create an education design and financing task force
 Revise school accreditation system

10. Opportunity to Thrive. Signature Calls To Action
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 Assuring Access to Affordable Health Care
 Expand Medicaid eligibility
 Financial Empowerment
 Raise the minimum wage
 End predatory lending
 Create universal child development accounts
 Create individual and family development accounts
 Concentrate financial services through empowerment sites

11. Opportunity to Thrive. Signature Calls To Action
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 Employment
 Enhance collaboration b/t educational institutions and employers
 Ensure employer-educator collaborations build a love of learning
 Preferentially fund job training programs that show impact
 Housing
 Build health, affordable housing
 Enact inclusionary zoning ordinances

12. Opportunity to Thrive. Signature Calls To Action
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 Transportation
 Identify priority transportation projects for the St. Louis region
 Develop a State supported funding plan for public transit

13. Racial Equity. Signature Calls To Action
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 Further Racial Equity
 Broadly apply a racial equity framework
 Create a 25 year managed fund
 Engage the faith community in the racial equity mission

14. Next Steps
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 The report is not an ending, but rather a beginning
 Build infrastructure to make vision and reality
 Who will carry on the day to day?
 Engage government entities, civic orgs, corporations & residents
 Hold accountable bodies accountable
 Recommendation of who will do this by December 31, 2015
 Monitor and Measure
 Evaluate implementation
 Evaluate impact

15. Role of The Public Sector
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 Review the report and monitor its implementation
 Monitor laws – SB 5
 Understand the potential impact on your organization
 Get involved
 Be open to change

16. Q&A Open Discussion
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