BY Northeast Community College | January 11, 2021
Preston Love, Jr. (Courtesy Photo)
NORFOLK, Neb. – Preston Love, Jr., founder and director of the Institute for Urban Development in Omaha, will speak during a virtual event in Norfolk commemorating the legacy of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Northeast Community College and the Mayor’s Diversity Council with the City of Norfolk will host the celebration on Mon., Jan. 18, at 1 p.m., in coordination with events that will be held across the nation to observe the federal holiday.
Love, an author, playwright and adjunct professor of African-American Experiences in Politics at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, will speak with wisdom derived from his life experiences, which includes organizing Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy in 1984 and his crusade and community activism for economi
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Police reform act becomes law
Gov. Baker signs, after legislative adjustments are made.
Local activist Lisette Williams, left, Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee, center, and local activist Eugene Langston-Jemison at a protest in front of the Dukes County Courthouse. Lucas Thors
A new act governing Massachusetts police has been signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker. The governor sent the first draft of the act presented to him back to the legislature over disagreements about law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, and the oversight of a committee charged with policing the police.
The most significant element of the act is the formation of a special commission to oversee standards for police officers, to be known as the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission. It will be an independent state agency that, according to State House News Service, will “establish policing standards, certify law enfo
By Colin A. Young, State House News Service
January 7, 2021
Colin A. Young, State House News Service
As the year and legislative session came to a close, Gov. Baker last week signed into law legislation creating a police accountability and oversight system under which officers need to be certified every three years and can lose their certification for violating to-be-developed policing standards.
As the country reacted to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers this summer, policing reform was catapulted to the top of Beacon Hill’s priority list and lawmakers set out on what would become a complicated, circuitous and, at times, controversial path to address police violence and some of the disproportionate impacts communities of color experience from law enforcement, and to bolster the state’s oversight of police officers.
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