Chelsea Geist Chelsea Geist is appointed new LGBTQ police liaison DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Officials in the Dallas Police Department’s Office of Community Affairs have appointed Chelsea Geist as the new LGBTQ liaison officer after former liaison officer Amber Roman was promoted to detective.
Connecting with the community during the pandemic is a challenge, Geist said, but because of the work of her predecessors over the past three decades, she’s already getting calls.
The position of liaison began informally during the 1980s when Sgt. Earl Newsom, one of the cops patrolling Cedar Springs Road, decided he’d walk into the businesses along the strip and introduce himself.