Cincinnati's Citizen Complaint Authority has a permanent executive director for the first time in over two years. John Kennedy Jr. took the job in late August.

Kennedy sat down with WVXU Local Government Reporter Becca Costello to talk about his plans for the independent police oversight board.

Introduce yourself to our listeners and talk about why you decided you wanted this position as director of the CCA.

Well, I'm John Kennedy. I came from the public defender's office, where I've spent my entire career up to this point. That's obviously a role that focuses very much on police-civilian interactions, and so I'm very familiar with police procedure, civilian complaints, while I was representing people who were charged with low-level misdemeanors to high-level felonies. And I saw this op

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