Jayson Wechter

Jayson Wechter is an investigator with the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints.

Jayson campaigned for the creation of the OCC when it was on the ballot in 1982, was hired as its first Senior Investigator in 1983 and helped shape many of its early policies and procedures, including creation of a demonstration monitoring program.

Jayson has been a licensed Private Investigator for almost thirty years and earned the designation of Certified Licensed Investigator from the National Association of Legal Investigators, a credential held by less than 200 investigators in the United States. While in private practice, Jayson specialized in civil and criminal defense investigations and in internal personnel investigations for corporations and government agencies. In 1998, Jayson returned to the OCC where he has investigated officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths (among many other cases), coordinated monitoring of police crowd-control activities and written training plans, performance appraisal factors and policy recommendations concerning officer-involved shootings.

Jayson has been a member of the NACOLE Professional Standards Committee since its inception in 2006, and wrote the first draft of the NACOLE Code of Ethics. He also wrote the qualification standards NACOLE adopted for civilian oversight investigators.

Jayson is the author of a September 2004 report issued by the Police Professionalism Initiative of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Investigating Citizen Complaints Is Different: The Special Challenges of Investigating Citizen Complaints Against Police Officers.