NIU will soon begin looking for a new police chief.

The search is expected to last about 90 days, and candidate interviews should begin in late July, according to a university news release. A search committee will be formed to lead the search, and stakeholder groups will include NIU Police Department supervisors and officers, University Council leaders and representatives from the President’s Commissions on the Status of Minorities and Women, according to the university.

Don Grady, the university’s former police chief, was fired in late February. According to Grady’s notice of termination, he was terminated because “of the failure of the NIU Police Department of Public Safety (the ‘Department’) to disclose and turn over exculpatory ‘Brady’ evidence in the case of The People of the State of Illinois vs. Andrew Rifkin” and because of a “failure to appropriately supervise the Department.”