Most of the other members are from outside of Portland, including the police auditor for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a retired deputy police chief from New Mexico, the senior adviser to the Los Angeles mayor on homelessness, the UCLA police chief and a forensic data specialist.
I am not sure how I feel about this one. Part of me says it should be locally monitored but then again, sometimes outside people are less biased.
BART is an interesting agency. I worked with them often in the past and they seemed like a professional group.