A panel appointed by the Tulsa City Council will meet June 26 to discuss the “racial and gender disparities” revealed in the city’s 2018 Equality Indicators Report.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Citizens can make comments at 5 p.m. on June 19 at the City Council Chambers in City Hall, with a three-minute limit on each comment.

Councilors have pledged to hold a four-hour session on the report beginning at 10 a.m. on June 22 at Rudisill Library, 1520 N. Hartford Ave. They will listen to citizen comments during that meeting.

The panelists appointed by the councilors are Doris L. Fransein, former chief judge, Tulsa County Juvenile Court; Melanie Poulter, Community Service Council; Justin Jones, director, Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau; and Greg Robinson, citizen representative. The Tulsa Police Department will select the final two panelists.

A second meeting is set for July 17. That main topic will be “racial disparities” in the use of force by police. A new panel will be named. Other meetings will be scheduled in August and September and topics include “gender disparities” in the arrests of adults and levels of minority representation in the police department.

These meetings are a result of criticism of Tulsa by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The report claims that police use force more on black people than Hispanics or white people. Police claim the report is flawed and based on faulty data. Tulsa police say figures show that less than 3 percent of arrests involve use of force.