I dub thee director
, Garza told the public that the city would conduct a national search to find the best candidate for the job. But then Garza changed his mind, promoting McCant to permanent director without any kind of public process, let alone a national search.
In a statement this week, a city spokesperson said Garza's move was in response to a Council resolution that ordered Garza to finally implement the Austin Police Oversight Act, which created the legal framework for a robust system of civilian police oversight. The spokesperson said that given"the desire to move forward quickly with implementing some aspects of [the APOA], it was important to provide stability to OPO and provide clear direction of where we need to head.
“We need to be able to have the conversation that [we] intended to have, not the conversations that the city manager’s office would like us to have.” , who oversees the city's three public safety departments , offered a slightly different version of events. He tells us that he did not order McCant to skip the meeting, but that the director asked if she needed to go and he said no."I saw the agenda item and it had nothing to do with police oversight," Mills said.
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