Jayson Wechter

Jayson Wechter has been a member of the NACOLE Board of Directors since 2007. For the past year he has served as Chair of its Website Committee, which has updated and reorganized the NACOLE website, and the Best Practices Committee. He previously served as Chair of the Newsletter Committee and Co-Chair of the Professional Standards Committee.

Jayson became involved with civilian oversight in 1982 when he campaigned for the creation of San Francisco’s Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) and began working at the OCC in 1983 as its first Senior Investigator. Jayson helped shape many of the OCC’s early policies and procedures, creating its demonstration monitoring program and writing and implementing the agency’s first policy recommendation adopted by the San Francisco Police Department.

Jayson has been a licensed Private Investigator in California for over thirty years and is a Certified Legal Investigator and a Certified Criminal Defense Investigator. While in private practice, Jayson specialized in civil and criminal investigations for attorneys and in workplace investigations for government agencies and corporations.

Jayson is the author of a 2004 report issued by the Police Professionalism Initiative of the University of Nebraska, “Investigating Citizen Complaints is Different: The Special Challenges of Investigating Citizen Complaints Against Police Officers.” He has conducted trainings for investigators and attorneys on investigative procedures and standards and on police misconduct issues and has made numerous presentations at NACOLE conferences.

Jayson has a BA in anthropology with a minor in journalism and has lost count of the number of post-graduate credits he has earned taking courses in a wide variety of subject areas. In his spare time, he creates team-building treasure hunts for corporations and as fundraisers for non-profit agencies (including the San Jose Historical Treasure Hunt at the 2007 NACOLE conference).