Yellow Dot program provides life-saving medical attention
The yellow dot on the rear driver s side window helps first responders know whether someone is in immediate need of medical attention. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 5:14 PM EST February 12, 2021
NEW YORK The Niagara County Sheriff s Office is reminding people of the free program called Yellow Dot.
The program is designed to help first responders provide life-saving medical attention during the first golden hour after a crash or any other emergency.
Here is how it works. When you get a Yellow Dot kit, it contains a medical information card and a Yellow Dot decal. Participants fill out the card, attach a recent photo to it, and place it in the glove compartment of their vehicle. You stick the Yellow Dot decal on the rear driver s side window.
OSWEGO â Oswego County Public Health Director Jiancheng Huang announced Friday, Feb. 12, that 25 additional residents have tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total cumulative number of positive cases since the county began monitoring for COVID-19 in March 2020 to 6,042. There are currently 197 active positive cases.
He also reported another COVID-19-related death. âThis marks the 87th death of one of our neighbors. I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of this patient.â
As the Oswego County Health Department continues to monitor COVID-19 activities in the county, Huang said, âDespite this new loss, we have noticed that both hospitalization rates and deaths are down in the past two weeks or more. The number of new positive cases in the daily reports are also drastically reduced.â
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County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced reforms to the Prince George s County Police Department last Friday. (Shutterstock)
PRINCE GEORGE S COUNTY, MD After months of Black Lives Matter protests and the death of an unarmed man, Prince George s County announced sweeping police reform. The new policies will make police records more public, increase officer oversight and emphasize community engagement. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced the changes at a Friday afternoon press conference.
Her overhaul started in July of 2020, when she created the Police Reform Work Group. The task force responded to protesters calling for social justice after George Floyd, a Black man, died while a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck last May.
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The Pritzker administration has announced a new center for incarcerated youth is coming to central Illinois.
The Illinois Youth Center will be at the site of a previously shuttered Lincoln Developmental Center in Lincoln. It’s part of a broader plan within the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) to reduce the harm of juvenile incarceration, using a community-based, rehabilitative, and restorative model.
About 40% of youths committed to IDJJ come from central Illinois.
“So all of the kids who come from that area are housed either far north in the state, near Chicago, or in the far southern part of the state. They’re housed several hours away from their families,” said Heidi Mueller, director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.