text: Great article! The details of police reform are usually out of the public eye. 
  
  I've just read the relevant sections of the legislation and the SPMA agreement. I didn't see a section indicating how arbitrations would create an accountability system that is "open to the public" as per Ian Warner's email. Arbitrations are usually confidential. The SPMA agreement states that information about OPA investigations would be restricted to the SPD, OPA, etc., and otherwise available only through a public disclosure request. That looks like less transparency and several steps back to the old status quo.
  
  What's the rush? This agreement is being promoted by the office of an interim mayor who was not directly elected by the people. We have a newly elected mayor who will have to be accountable for policing—a social and racial justice, life-or-death issue. Let Jenny Durkan review the agreement and receive informed public comment over a reasonable time period before it is approved.