UPDATE: At the request of committee chair Tim Burgess, the public-safety committee decided to put off a presentation about police shootings because one of the two citizen observers who completed a survey of police use-of-force incidents in 2008 and 2009, Rebecca Roe, couldn't be at today's meeting. Roe's report is critical of some police practices, including an incident in which police shot at a moving car.

The city council's public safety committee will be briefed at a special meeting at noon today about incidents from 2008 and 2009 in which Seattle Police Department officers have shot civilians. The briefing, from the citizen observers who oversee SPD's firearms review board (the board charged with determining whether a shooting was justified) won't deal directly with the now-notorious shooting last month of John T. Williams, a Native American woodcarver, by rookie officer Ian Birk; however, it will offer a look at the mechanism SPD uses to assess shootings by police, as well as some recommendations from citizen observers that could change the way SPD investigates police shootings in the future.

Watch the meeting live here: