WHECTV Created: February 04, 2021 10:23 AM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) – Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren s office unveiled Thursday an early look at its proposal for policing reforms.
Police Accountability Board representatives, City Council Vice President Willie J. Lightfoot, Councilmember Miguel Melendez, and other community partners involved in creating the draft will join Warren in presenting the full draft proposal Thursday night.
The presentation started at 7 p.m. If you missed it, you can watch it in the video player below.
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The city says the proposals span 10 different areas for improvement, including:
Accountability: Petition the State of New York to amend the Taylor Law and the Triborough Agreement to allow the City to terminate RPD personnel immediately for cause and enable the City to develop a completely new collective bargaining agreement.
N.Y. Repeals Law That Critics Say Criminalized âWalking While Transâ
The anti-loitering law was designed to discourage street prostitution, but was viewed by L.G.B.T.Q. advocates as a cudgel to harass transgender people.
Some Black Lives Matter protests last year sought to focus on police violence against Black transgender people. Credit.Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times
Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated March 2, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. â For decades, a state loitering law, originally designed to discourage street prostitution, was interpreted far more broadly, resulting in what civil rights advocates said was a pattern of police harassment of anyone who they viewed as looking different or suspicious.
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CITY OF NEWBURGH - Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey said the conversations that set off a potential city partnership with the Ruff Ryders 2 the Rescue program happened by chance.
Through a mutual friend s introduction, Harvey had multiple meetings with the father of two brothers who founded Ruff Ryders Inc., including Jaoquin Waah Dean, when he learned about the group s connection to Ruff Ryders 2 the Rescue.
Ruff Ryders 2 the Rescue (ruffryders2therescue.org) is part of the organization s foundation and focuses on violence intervention, economic and disaster relief, and workforce development programs for young people. Ruff Ryders Inc. includes the hip hop collective and record label Ruff Ryders Entertainment.
OGDENSBURG â A registered violent sex offender is facing three new charges after being arrested this week on warrants issued by Ogdensburg City Court.
Kenneth P. Fisher, 52, was charged by city police Monday afternoon with failure to report for an annual photograph, failure to register a change of address within 10 days and failure to verify an address within 90 days. Failure to comply with any state Sex Offender Registration Act requirements, including periodic verification and changes of address, is a felony.
Fisherâs sex offender status stems from the March 1990 rape of an 8-year-old girl in Texas. His offenses, according to his New York registration through the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, include sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse and sexual contact, all designated as actual and more-than-once acts against the victim, who was not a stranger to Fisher. He was sentenced to 10 years in a Texas state prison after being convicted on June 21, 19