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Albany Council already eyeing changes to Sheehan s police reform plan Council passes mayor s recommendations, promises more reforms FacebookTwitterEmail ALBANY After laying out what it sees as some of the plan s shortfalls, the Common Council voted 13-1 to pass a resolution approving the city s proposed police reform plan. The resolution the council backed on Monday took issue with the lack of public input in the process, the timeline for some of the proposed reforms and the lack of information on who is responsible for seeing the reforms into action. The plan was the city s response to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo s executive order requiring local governments to reform their police departments in the wake of nationwide protests last year over police brutality. The deadline for local governments to pass their plans is April 1. ....
Somebody is going to get hurt : Norwalk parents urge revamp of Silvermine school driveway FacebookTwitterEmail School lets out at Silvermine Elementary School Thursday, February 6, 2020, in Norwalk, Conn. A number of parents, students and staff came out Wednesday night to make pleas to the Planning Commission to fund certain capital projects. In particular, many from the Silvermine community asked the commission to fund a new driveway for the school as the current one cannot support the nine buses that come to the school in addition to parents who drive their kids.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media NORWALK After learning a $1.5 million revamp of Silvermine Elementary School’s driveway may no longer be in the cards, parents and local leaders took to a public hearing expressing safety concerns about the cramped pickup and drop-off lane. ....