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Embroiled in scandal, Mayor Lovely Warren faces a tough battle against City Councilmember Malik Evans in the mayoral race. Mayor Lovely Warren stood at the podium outside her office at City Hall facing what would have been a circular firing squad of reporters had she given them a chance to pull the trigger. There were plenty of questions. Her husband, Timothy Granison, had been arraigned on drug and weapons charges earlier in the day. Prosecutors alleged he was a player in a cocaine ring and police claimed to have found drugs on him and an unregistered handgun and a semi-automat...

PHOTO BY GINO FANELLI Mayor Lovely Warren introduced her 2021-22 budget on Friday, May 14. Mayor Lovely Warren on Friday unveiled a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that she called "historic" and would cut funding for the Rochester Police Department, expand the city's crisis intervention services, and provide the new Police Accountability Board with the full $5 million it had requested. The $561 million budget proposal, which the mayor presente...

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle A group of lawmakers, Rochester activists and mental health professionals are proposing "Daniel's Law," a bill that, if passed, would amend public health law in New York state, establishing mental health response units that are trained to deescalate mental health and substance abuse emergency situations. Those units would allow mental health professionals to respond to mental health and substance abuse emergencies, instead of armed police officers. In addition, the legislation would create state and regional mental health response councils to develop respo...

Mayor Warren Presents RPD Reform Draft By Jonathan Hunter and Spectrum News Staff Rochester UPDATED 10:56 PM ET Feb. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:42 PM ET Feb. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:42 PM EST Feb. 04, 2021 SHARE ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren on Thursday presented a first draft to reform the city police department. This comes as par...