NYPD Cops Become Commanders Despite Dozens Of Misconduct Complaints
arrow Deputy Inspector Osvaldo Nuñez of the 47th Precinct (left) and Captain Carlos Fabara of the 100th Precinct have more complaints filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board than any other commanding officers. NYPD
In late September, Captain Carlos Fabara became the newest commanding officer for the 100th Precinct in Rockaway, Queens. Like any commanding officer of a “house,” Fabara is the face of his precinct, answering questions from anxious members of the neighborhood at community council meetings, and defending his officers’ work during the weekly CompStat rundown with the NYPD’s top leadership.
NYCLU urges Onondaga County jail to relax ‘harmful’ lockdown in response to Covid
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Inmates at the Onondaga County Justice Center jail are allowed just 30 minutes outside their cells every other day because of a Covid-19 outbreak.Brett Carlsen | bcarlsen@syracus
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Syracuse, N.Y. – A civil rights group today expressed “serious concern’ about the stringent measures Onondaga County jail officials have taken to combat an outbreak of Covid-19 at the Justice Center jail.
In a letter to Sheriff Gene Conway, the New York Civil Liberties Union criticized the recent policy of limiting inmates to 30 minutes every other day outside their cells.
ACLU free-speech icon Ira Glasser profiled in new film
Nico Perrino was only 26 when he met two giants in the history of the American Civil Liberties Union: Ira Glasser, its executive director from 1978 to 2001, and Norman Siegel, the leader of the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1985 to 2000.
At the time, in 2017, Perrino was a couple of years into working for FIRE, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that defends the civil liberties of students and faculty. (Its full name is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.)
As such, he was aware of the ACLU’s vast expansion under Glasser and its role in broadening the First Amendment’s protection for free expression for all Americans. But he knew little about the specific battles these men, and their allies, had fought. And he was deeply concerned about the growth of hate speech in American life.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) New York State has become the first state to temporarily ban the use of facial recognition systems in schools.
With Cuomo s signature, facial recognition is banned through July 2022.
Back in June, the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state s Education Department to halt the technology. The program was first introduced back in 2019 when education officials approved a plan allowing Lockport City Schools to use the technology.
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The NYCLU claims the technology is a violation of student data and protection laws. In the past, school officials have said the cameras don t record, and student images wouldn t be saved.
WBFO s Kyle Mackie reports.
The new legislation includes facial recognition technology and will force the Lockport City School District to stop using its controversial AEGIS security system, which was activated in January this year, making Lockport one of the first school districts in the country to start using facial recognition technology.
“Facial recognition surveillance never belonged in the school,” said Jim Shultz, a Lockport parent who helped lead local opposition to the technology. “[This legislation] is an important victory for students not only in Lockport but everywhere in the State of New York.”
Jim Shultz spoke to fellow Lockport parents and community leaders at a town hall meeting hosted by the NYCLU in Lockport on Feb. 25, 2020.