Perez does an about-face in testimony for Bridgeport trial about assistant police chief role
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Former Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez continued on the witness stand Friday.Ned Gerard / Associated Press
BRIDGEPORT Former police chief Armando Perez took the stand for a second day of testimony Friday in the civil trial challenging the appointment of Rebeca Garcia as assistant police chief and promptly retracted much of his testimony from the day before.
“I think I was a little confused yesterday,” Perez volunteered as the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Thomas Bucci, prepared to question him for a second day.
“What are you confused about?” Bucci asked.
Alexandra Allen, owner of Main Street Produce and Freshway Farms, has operated her Santa Maria-based businesses alongside her husband since the '70s. Only in the.
58:51 Scientists around the world agree that pollution, habitat destruction, and over-exploitation of natural resources have created a climate emergency that threatens great harm to human health, wellbeing, and livelihoods. Here at home in California and on the Central Coast, we are experiencing those effects first hand. The U.S. drought monitor reports approximately more than half of California is already experiencing a severe drought, and that we are primed for a severe 2021 fire season. And while climate change is a threat to everyone’s health and well-being, some groups socially and economically disadvantaged ones face the greatest risks. So, what can we do?
Labor grievances from cops, other personnel up in Bridgeport
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1of3Bridgeport City Hall 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Conn.Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Cathy Zuraw
2of3Bridgeport police officers asked protestors to take down their tents at the start of a protest in front of police headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn., on Thursday Sept. 10, 2020.Photo: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
3of3Bridgeport Acting Police Chief Rebeca Garcia launches the department s new locally focused recruitment for new police officers at the Bridgeport Police Academy in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT More municipal employees especially police officers are having job issues, lodging complaints and facing discipline, according to the labor relations department.
Bridgeport pursues race equity study of government, services. But is it too broad?
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Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT Do city police officers treat all citizens equally? Do majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods receive fair treatment from other big departments like public facilities and health? Is the local government payroll diverse enough? Do minority businesses struggle to receive municipal contracts?
Bridgeport is advertising for a consultant to grapple with those weighty questions and suggest solutions through a “race equity” study that, according to the online bid document, will “enable the city to establish itself as a national standard for racial justice and equality.”