Zisser Law is available to conduct workplace investigations, investigations of officer-involved shootings and other uses of force, and other independent and neutral investigations of incidents or allegations. Mr. Zisser is also available to serve as Independent Police Auditor and to conduct monitoring of consent decrees involving systemic issues affecting jails, prisons, other facilities, educational agencies, or police departments. Aaron Zisser has extensive experience conducting such reviews.

Police oversight and investigations: Mr. Zisser has reviewed hundreds of Internal Affairs investigations as Independent Police Auditor for the city of San Jose and directed and oversaw independent investigations of complaints of officer misconduct as Interim Director of Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency. He also conducted such investigations directly as an Assistant District Attorney in the specialized Independent Investigations Bureau. He has also advised other police oversight agencies.

As Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX Coordinator at a university, he directed workplace investigations and investigations of discrimination and sexual misconduct involving students.

Systemic reviews and monitoring: Mr. Zisser was a trial attorney at the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice for more than five years and was lead attorney in numerous “pattern or practice” investigations and compliance monitoring cases. He reviewed statewide systems, local and state correctional facilities, schools, and other agencies. He also served on a court monitoring team involving a state corrections agency and has reviewed local jails on behalf of a community commission. As director of a university civil rights office, he provided system-wide oversight of the university’s compliance and oversaw the investigation of individual cases.