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PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today joined Councilwoman Nirva LaFortune (Ward 3), Tiffney Davidson-Parker President and COO of The Providence Center, Sarah Kelly-Palmer, Vice President of Family Service of Rhode Island, Overdose Prevention Program Director of Project Weber/Renew Dennis Bailer, Director of Healthy Communities Laurie Moïse Sears, Commissioner of Providence Public Safety Steven M. Paré, Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh Clements and community members to announce an engagement with The Providence Center and Family Service of Rhode Island to analyze the city s current emergency response systems and develop recommendations for the design of a Behavioral Health Crisis Response
January 18, 2021 10:43 pm
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called on Providence Commissioner of Public Safety Steven Paré and Police Chief Hugh Clements to take a more aggressive stance on holding officers accountable for violating body camera policies.
ACLU of Rhode Island’s Executive Director, Steven Brown, called the problem “persistent” and “one that severely undermines the transparency the Department is seeking to promote.”
The urge for stronger action cited “repeated instances of police failing to activate their body cameras in high profile encounters with the public.”
The ACLU said they filed a request with the department last year, which revealed 20 body camera violations over a two-and-a-half-year period.