John Celestino, an accomplished newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the North of Boston Media Group of eight newspapers, effective immediately.
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The Buffalo News, the
Niagara Gazette and the
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in the Buffalo area. Community partners include the MAGIC Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a journalism professor at St. John Fisher College.
This spring, the initiative will expand to include news and community organizations in Southeast Michigan, becoming the first interstate collaborative supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. The New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative - as the interstate collaborative will be called - is made possible through a grant from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation. The foundation makes grants in the Western New York and Southeast Michigan regions, honoring Wilson s connections to both Buffalo and Detroit.
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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.
UPDATE: Lockport school district will follow new law barring facial recognition tech [Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, N.Y.]
Dec. 23 Lockport City School District is barred, at least for a while, from using its facial recognition-based surveillance system under legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday.
The newly enacted legislation imposes a moratorium on the purchase and use of biometric identifying technology in schools until at least July 1, 2022, or until a report is completed and the state Education Commissioner authorizes their use, whichever is later.
The moratorium applies to both public and private schools in New York state and covers the state-funded, multi-million-dollar Aegis software-powered facial and object recognition system that was activated by the Lockport district on Jan. 2.