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BY MATTHEW BARAKAT (Associated Press) FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates. Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard complained that the academy director, Maj. Wilson Lee, used Chinese characters to sign the certificates that […]
The Town of Herndon is conducting an external review after the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Training Academy said it will stop sending graduates to the Herndon Police Department. The move came after Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard reportedly took issue with graduation certificates that were signed in Chinese by the academy’s director, Major Wilson Lee,
Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill that will allow closed hearings for the decertification of law officers and for related records to not be disclosed to the public.
The move comes after the town of Herndon's police chief took issue with graduation certificates signed in Chinese by the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Training Academy's director