Cincinnati's police oversight board has a permanent director for the first time in 2+ years

Cincinnati’s Citizen Complaint Authority has a permanent executive director for the first time in over two years.

City Manager Sheryl Long announced Monday the hiring of John Kennedy Jr. to lead the independent police oversight board. Kennedy most recently worked as felony director in the Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office.

Long says the city utilized an executive search firm to fill the position, but the job listing failed to attract qualified candidates for a long time.

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"We continually got resumes that just were not up to, in my opinion, the standard of what Cincinnatians deserve," Long told WVXU. "We really needed somebody that was not necessarily all policing and not necessarily all legal."

Long says whoever leads the CCA should have a good unders