Cedar Park widens review of police
Council also weighs day care regulations in wake of Kelley case.
In response to the Greg Kelley case, the Cedar Park City Council has approved an expanded review of the Police Department and a council member asked for tougher regulations on local day care facilities.
The council added a review of the policies and procedures of the patrol division to an independent investigation it had approved in October to be done by the Chicago-based Hillard Heintze security firm. Initially, the scope of the review included only the policies and procedures of the Police Department’s criminal investigation division, City Manager Brenda Eivens said.
Eivens recommended the review’s expansion to the City Council, which gave its approval Thursday night.
“The patrol division is actually the largest and most visible function within the department with interactions with criminal investigations as well as other divisions, so it makes sense for us to go ahead and review its operations at this time,” Eivens said during the meeting.
She said she expects the full review to be complete in 90 to 120 days. Eivens declined to comment further after the meeting.
Kelley was convicted of sexually assaulting a child at a Cedar Park day care facility but has been released from jail pending an appeal of the conviction.
His lawyer has said there are two more suspects in the case that police never interviewed, including a man who lived in the Cedar Park home where the assault took place and who had been previously arrested and charged with an indecency with a child.
Law enforcement officials have not released the man’s name.
Council Member Corbin Van Arsdale said during Thursday’s meeting that he wants the council to discuss creating local regulations for day care facilities because of what happened in the Kelley case.
“It offends me that children in Cedar Park were put in proximity to convicted criminals,” Ars-