Jim Kenyon: Norwich turning a blind eye to lack of police body cameras
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Modified: 4/3/2021 9:33:51 PM
In its infinite wisdom, the Norwich Selectboard has decided for the time being against equipping the town’s police officers with body cameras.
Talk about a lack of vision.
Body cameras are an important tool in the national drive to make law enforcement more accountable and transparent.
Communities and states that fail to equip their police officers with body cameras are “really not being responsible,” said George Ostler, a criminal defense lawyer for nearly 40 years whose office is in Norwich.
Claremont school district responds to family’s lawsuit
Published: 12/24/2020 1:53:20 PM
The Claremont School District denies that it failed to protect a young disabled student from being sexually assaulted by a substitute teacher during a field trip nearly two years ago.
The former substitute teacher, George Caccavaro, 79, pleaded guilty to simple assault but in his response to a lawsuit “denies ever sexually assaulting” the student.
In separate documents this month, the school district, Caccavaro and two school officials responded to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in September by the woman’s guardian over the assault that occurred in 2019.
Claremont school district responds to family’s lawsuit
Modified: 12/22/2020 9:25:07 PM
CLAREMONT The Claremont School District denies that it failed to protect a young disabled student from being sexually assaulted by a substitute teacher during a field trip nearly two years ago.
The former substitute teacher, George Caccavaro, 79, pleaded guilty to simple assault but in his response to a lawsuit “denies ever sexually assaulting” the student.
In separate documents this month, the school district, Caccavaro and two school officials responded to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in September by the woman’s guardian over the assault that occurred in 2019.
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