The City of Miami announced Tuesday that it would no longer fund the Civilian Investigative Panel because, according to its interpretation of the new state law, the panel can no longer exist.
Rodney Jacobs, head of the CIP, told the Miami Herald the city had it all wrong and his agency would be seeking legal action. 'I don't believe in the city's articulation of the law,' he said. 'I think [the law] still gives a pathway for it to still exist.'
The oversight panel's petition to the court hinges on how the agency was created. The CIP was created by a voter referendum in 2001 and then added to the City Charter, which set its authority and mandated that it be provided with a budget.
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