MADISON — Madison residents will have an opportunity Thursday to discuss police accountability and public safety at a community forum convened in the wake of Corey Ruiz’s death during an encounter involving the Madison Police Department. The event is scheduled for 5 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Goodman Community Center’s Brassworks Building, 214 Waubesa St. It is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required. The forum will be facilitated by Dr. Ananda Mirilli and is designed to give community members space to share information, raise concerns and consider responses to ongoing questions about policing and public safety. Planned discussion topics include the Ruiz case and its aftermath, independent investigations and legal protections, police-policy changes, the status of Madison’s civilian oversight system, housing and homelessness, civilian responses to behavioral-health crises, racial disparities and public policy, and possible next steps for community organizing. Panelists are expected to include Aeiramique Glass, Madison’s independent police monitor; members of the Madison Police Civilian Oversight Board; Common Council Vice President Carmella Glenn; Alder Davy Mayer; Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores, a key witness and former PCOB chair; and Chip Cruz of the Williamson Marquette Business Alliance. The forum is being organized by the PCOB, Community Response Team, Freedom, Inc. and the Social Justice Center. Devon Snyder, the oversight board’s chair of community engagement, said the gathering is intended to support accountability, advocacy, coalition-building and community support in response to recent events. The meeting comes as Madison’s civilian oversight structure and the broader question of how police conduct is investigated remain central to local debates over public safety. By bringing oversight officials, elected representatives, advocates and residents into the same room, organizers are seeking to connect the Ruiz case to longer-term policy questions rather than treat it as an isolated incident.