COLUMBIA - In a meeting on Wednesday the Columbia Citizens Police Review Board made a point to talk about a plan to possibly reverse changes made in September of last year.

The changes include only being allowed to look at appeals if they fell into one of four categories, the inability to host public meetings, make comments on policy and more.

"We are not able to interact with the public in the way we would like to and we're not able to make recommendations about policy, procedure and training. We would like to have that restored," Doug Hunt, a board member of the CPRB, said.

Columbia City Council took the steps to make these changes with the goal to adhere to state law. However, during the meeting the board discussed how other cities in that state with police review boards have not fo

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