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 The former Washington state NAACP leader who stepped down after questions were raised about her racial identity is refusing calls to resign from a volunteer police oversight commission amid allegations of improper conduct. 
 
 Rachel Dolezal, 37, was asked by Spokane's mayor to step down along with two other commissioners of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission after an independent report found they created an intimidating work environment and overstepped their authority. 
 
 Dolezal was also accused in the report of improperly revealing the names of people involved in police misconduct investigations during public meetings. 
 
 "I will not resign. I have done nothing wrong and neither has Adrian Dominguez or Kevin Berkompass," Dolezal said in a statement Wednesday night, referring to the two other commissioners on the volunteer police oversight board named in the report. 
 
 Dolezal said she and the other commissioners "double-checked our actions with legal counsel," and noted it is an unpaid position. "The work is tough, and certainly there is a degree of expected push-back from the institution, but the level of harassment and sabotage by city government is completely undeserved and inappropriate." 
 
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 Dolezal is at the center of a controversy over her race, after her parents came forward last week and said she is "Caucasian by birth" but has been falsely representing herself as black for years. 
 
 On Monday, Dolezal resigned from her position as president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. She also lost her job as an African studies instructor at a Washington university. 
 
 Spokane Mayor David Condon on Wednesday called the alleged misconduct a "serious violation of the public trust" and said Dolezal and the other two commissioners named in the report have been asked to resign. The City Council could take action to remove them when it meets Thursday. ||||| Rachel Dolezal (Photo: KREM.com) 
 
 SPOKANE, Wash.—City leaders voted Thursday to remove Rachel Dolezal from a police oversight committee in Spokane. 
 
 The vote came during a special City Council meeting. 
 
 The Spokane City Council voted 6 to 0 to remove Rachel Dolezal from the Police Ombudsman Commission due to misconduct which was originally reported in a whistle-blower complaint. 
 
 The council voted 5 to 1 to give Adrian Dominguez one week to respond the allegations of misconduct. Dominguez is traveling and asked for time to review the misconduct findings according to Spokane leaders. City Council will revisit the issue with Dominguez during their June 24 meeting. 
 
 City leaders then accepted the resignation of Kevin Berkompas. 
 
 Council Members have just stepped out of executive session. #RacheDolezalpic.twitter.com/8q0kidfRjH — Shawn Chitnis (@shawnchitnis) June 18, 2015 
 
 Investigators from an independent law firm ruled Wednesday on the complaint which was filed in April 2015. They began looking into the claims on May 4. 
 
 The investigator found behavioral misconduct during interactions with City employees by three members of the commission including Dolezal. The eight findings include workplace harassment, taking on duties not assigned, changing official meeting minutes, and criticizing the person that filed the complaint against all three in public. 
 
 Spokane Mayor David Condon and Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart asked all three to resign during a press conference on Wednesday. Stuckard also said he had contacted Rachel Dolezal, Kevin Berkompas and Adrian Dominguez earlier in the week asking them to resign. 
 
 Kevin Berkompas, Adrian Dominguez and Rachel Dolezal all began serving on the Police Ombudsman Commission on September 15, 2014. Berkompas and Dominguez's terms were set to expire in September 2017. Dolezal's term would have ended on September 15, 2016. 
 
 The commissioners overseeing the Police Ombudsman are volunteers, but officials said they are still expected to follow a code of ethics. 
 
 Prior to being removed from the Police Ombudsman Commission, Dozale issued the following statement about the misconduct findings: 
 
 "I am deeply disturbed by the letter I received today from the Mayor and Spokane City Council President requesting my resignation as Chair of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission. 
 
 I standby my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement. 
 
 I am sincerely troubled by the short-sided conclusions that have so quickly been made with this report. I urge the people of Spokane to take a close look at the timing and intentions of the investigation and request for my resignation. 
 
 I will continue to do all I can to promote greater transparency and accountability for law enforcement both locally and nationally." 
 
 City records showed that a complaint was filed in April 15 by a city employee against the three-commission members. 
 
 In the report, the employee alleges the three "collectively and individually behaved via email, in person interactions and in public meetings, in a very rude disrespectful and degrading manner directly and indirectly to me." 
 
 The Investigation took place between May 4 and June 5, and 20 witnesses were interviewed, including the three named in complaint. 
 
 In the report, it states evidence and interviews confirmed workplace harassment allegations. 
 
 The report said it found a revealing a pattern of misconduct and harassment that might be viewed only as rude or unprofessional were it not for the ongoing pattern. 
 
 The woman who filed the complaint began working at the office two weeks before the retirement of Tim Burns, the previous ombudsman. 
 
 The complaint alleges shortly after Burns left, Dolezal, Berkompas, and Dominguez began micromanaging the woman, wanting to know which projects she was working on and tried to control which tasks had priority. The complaint also alleges the three would give the woman directives that conflicted with what other commissioners had told her to do. 
 
 The complaint states the woman met with Chris Cavanaugh regarding the treatment she was receiving both in January and in April. 
 
 OPOC Commissioner Scott Richter told investigators he too observed his fellow commissioners' conduct and brought his concerns to council members on several occasions. He told council members he believed Dolezal, Berkompas, and Dominguez's conduct led to Burns leaving the OPO. 
 
 Richter stated the three were mistreating staff, and expressed they were taking on duties specifically reserved to the Police Ombudsman. 
 
 On May 6, the woman submitted her notice of resignation, and her last day was May 20. According to the report, she has been provided an interim position in the Mayor's Office while the City attempts to find a new position for her. 
 
 At the conclusion of the investigation, the findings were Dolezal, Berkompas, and Dominguez interacted with the woman in a manner which created a negative work environment. 
 
 The report also stated the three were attempting to draft and adopt OPO policies and procedures before a new ombudsperson was seated, and the three pushed for evaluations of OPO staff to be completed before an ombudsperson could be seated. 
 
 The report said "In viewing the OPOC meetings, particularly the May meeting, it appears the OPOC was using the threat of a poor evaluation to retaliate against or intimidate [the woman.]" 
 
 In another finding, the report stated Dolezal and Berkompas instituted a policy of altering OPOC meeting minutes before they were presented for approval. 
 
 Dolezal, Berkompas, and Dominguez were also found to have made decisions regarding OPOC actions outside of OPOC meetings. The report said the three would use e-mail to discuss OPOC actions. 
 
 One commissioner said there were several OPOC meetings where it was apparent the three had already discussed and decided on an agenda item. 
 
 Dolezal and Dominguez also exhibited a bias against law enforcement within the scope of their activities as OPOC commissioners and in public, the report finds. The report cited Dolezal's involvement with protests of recent officer-involved shootings. 
 
 The report further stated Dolezal's position as NAACP President is a conflict of interest with her role as OPOC chair. The report said her involvement with protests of law enforcement is in conflict with her ability to serve on the OPOC in an unbiased manner. 
 
 The report also said Dolezal breached her duty on keeping confidential information by revealing the name and identity of individuals involved or potentially involved in police misconduct investigations. 
 
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– If Rachel Dolezal gets a reality show, it won't be able to focus on her volunteer position on Spokane’s police oversight commission. Spokane City Council voted 6 to 0 yesterday to remove Dolezal from the Police Ombudsman Commission after a report found evidence of wrongdoing by Dolezal and two other commission members. An investigation following a female city employee's complaint on April 15 found Dolezal, Kevin Berkompas, and Adrian Dominguez were guilty of workplace harassment; taking on duties not assigned, like attempting to draft and adopt policies; changing official meeting minutes; criticizing the woman who filed the complaint in public; and intimidating her by suggesting she'd get a poor evaluation, KREM reports. Investigators say Dolezal, one of 20 witnesses interviewed, showed a bias against police, and her role in protests against law enforcement showed a clear conflict of interest. The report also found Dolezal didn't keep confidential the names of individuals who were participating in police misconduct probes. Spokane's mayor and city council president asked the three officials to resign prior to the meeting, which Berkompas did. The council allowed Dominguez a week to respond to the allegations. Dolezal had refused to step down, questioning both the "timing and intentions of the investigation." "I have done nothing wrong," she said in advance of the vote, per NBC News. "The level of harassment and sabotage by city government is completely undeserved and inappropriate."