Sen. Neal removed from Metro review panel

Friday, March 20, 1998 | 11:20 a.m.

Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, was absent at Thursday night's meeting when Metro Undersheriff Richard Winget made the motion to remove him from the Citizen Review Board advisory committee. It was the third session for the 16-member committee and Neal's third absence.

The committee voted 7-6 to remove Neal, as well as remove O.C. Lee, also an original member. Lee had turned in his resignation before the meeting began.

Three citizens, Jerry Lindsay, Patricia Davis-Grimes and Maragita Rebollao, were voted in as new committee members.

During the 1997 Legislature, Neal successfully sponsored the bill that allows a police review board to be formed.

Neal said Friday that he didn't plan to resign from the panel, but doesn't quarrel with the committee's action.

"I always had a (meeting) conflict with the dates," he said. "I haven't had the time to attend. If removing me helps the committee to move forward to produce an ordinance, that's fine."

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