Fae Brooks Expertise: Training, Expert Witness Evaluations, Motivational Speeches Full Biography: Chief Fabienne Brooks retired in August 2004 as Chief of the Criminal Investigations Division with the King County Sheriff’s Office after over 26 years of service. She has formed her own company, Brooks S-A-C, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in training, expert witness evaluations and motivational speeches.

Chief Brooks worked her way up through the ranks and her law enforcement career includes patrol, field training officer, media relations, major crimes investigation and supervision, patrol operations and precinct commander. During her tenure as Chief of detectives, several critical programs were implemented: Child Death response protocol, Drug Endangered Children Protocol and a Regional Criminal Intelligence Group, a cooperative work group comprised of five local law enforcement agencies. Other achievements include instituting recruit level ethics training, forming the KCSO Domestic Violence Intervention Unit and creating and facilitating a Domestic Violence Council (which was a government-based coordinated effort to address domestic violence).

Chief Brooks participated in the first nation-wide Meth Summit in 2001 and served as co-convener of the King County Meth Action team for four years. Chief Brooks facilitates the Washington Working Group which was established in 2002 after an off duty deputy shot and killed an African American male resulting in riots, protests, and other acts of civil disobedience in the Seattle area. This shooting was the 9th killing of an African American male by law enforcement in the Seattle community in nine years. This group continues to come together to forge a process to begin meaningful dialog on resolving issues of race between L.E. and the minority community.

Chief Brooks served on numerous committees including: the Governor's Advisory Council on Families, Youth, and Justice, the Governor's Select Committee on Hard to Place Adolescents and on the Advisory Board of the Building Blocks Grant. She also served as co-chair of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs’ (WASPC) Racial Profiling Task Force and helped to develop a state-wide policy on Unbiased Policing and chaired the KCSO committee on unbiased policing that developed a publication (which is being translated into 13 languages predominate in the Seattle area) to educate citizens on what to do when stopped by police.

Chief Brooks attended Western Washington University (1969-71) and is a 1996 Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. She graduated from the FBI National Academy in 1995 and the Pacific Northwest Command College in 1999.