Johnson formed a task force in February to examine how to rid the Chicago Police Department of officers with ties to extremist groups.

2 months later, the effort has yet to show any sign of public progress in his first public remarks about the task force.

Johnson pledged to root out extremism.

>> I'm committed to ensuring that every single city employee represents the values of working people.

you know, whether their police officer or a teacher or anyone works in treating sanitation, they have to uphold those principles.

>> And our Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather, the mayor agreed to form this task force 8 months ago or 8 months after Inspector General Denver, which Berg urged him to take a new approach in his push to terminate police officers who engage in extremists and anti-government activities or associate with groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were.

Does this effort stand?

Well, we learned today that this task force has met twice and we'll meet for a 3rd time, perhaps coincidentally tomorrow, there are 4 additional meetings scheduled with the gold Deputy Mayor Gary and Gatewood told me of having some sort of recommendation that can be released publicly by the end of the summer.

However, both the mayor and the deputy mayor made it clear that this task force isn't just looking at CPD and extremists in CPD, but citywide in any department.

I should be clear.

There have been no allegations against city employees of any other department having ties to the start groups, any other department other than CPD for, of course, has the task force made any progress?

So none that we can tell because these are not meetings that are subject to the open meeting rules.

We can't go to these meetings and they have said anything about what they're looking at doing that flies in the face of a recommendation from Inspector General de Pere Berg who said that it is best to sort to update the public as Mitch is possible to foster trust in whatever this group is going to recommend, because these are very difficult issues.

That, of course, raises First Amendment concerns and there's a lot at stake for the mayor because these are the people who are, of course, trusted to carry out the law in Chicago on the mend.

Matt Martin, the chair of the Ethics Committee is working to pass an ordinance that would allow city officials to fire employees who actively participate in extremist organizations.

That advocate for the overthrow of the government.

Where does that stand?

Well, perhaps also coincidentally Alderman Martin introduced his rent his ordinance just 2 days before the mayor to perform this task force.

The ordinance hasn't yet made it to a hearing.

Alderman Martin told me he still work shopping.

It gathering support.

However, he says that he hasn't been read in on anything that the working group is doing.

So it appears to be 2 separate paths moving through city Hall to sort of address this issue and inspector general, let's Berg says she doesn't know what's going on in task force either updated her either, OK, had a Sharon.

She'll be getting those updates force as they're available.

Thank you, Thanks,