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A migrant encampment that has been in the woods near Southampton Village for years faces renewed threat of eviction, with the site's pending development into affordable housing.
Fitchburg Police Chief Ernest Martineau was OK with the idea of increased transparency into police departments after the state Legislature passed a police reform bill at the end of 2020, but a recent list of officer disciplinary records has left police officials like Martineau “disappointed” in how parts of the process have unfolded.
The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, which was created by the reform bill, released a list last month containing disciplinary records for individual officers across the state going back to the 1980s. While police officials like Martineau praised the idea behind the list and the transparency it is supposed to provide, they took issue with what they said were inaccuracies and omissions from the list after the individual police departments provided “mountains of records” to the commission.
Eight homeless and recently homeless households received the first of 24 vouchers in the Town of Brookhaven as part of the Biden administration’s first round of emergency housing vouchers made available during the pandemic.
Replies(21) A recent report by Porch found that New York has the largest homeless population in the country. (Shutterstock) LONG ISLAND, NY — With the coronavirus changing many aspects of daily life, one Long Island organization had to find a way to help people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. A recent report by Porch found that New York has the largest homeless population in the country. According to the report, the homelessness rate across the country fell between 2007 and 2019 but has begun to increase amid the coronavirus pandemic. The study found that in New York, there ...