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Tioga County approves police reform, receives backlash on process
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OWEGO (WBNG) The Tioga County legislature approved the county s police reform plan today.
This comes after New York State s 2020 executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo which forced municipalities to review policing policies.
Tioga County s plan passed unanimously during Thursday morning s special legislative meeting.
According to the plan, the county received 537 responses to a community survey asking what residents would like to see changed.
Legislative Chair Martha Sauerbrey said there were no major changes with the feedback that they received. Body cameras for the sheriff s office were proposed, and the legislative body opted to have that as a point of discussion during the budget process later this year. Sauerbrey said that while the hardware is not expensive, the cost of storing footage is and was the main issue with that proposal.
(WBNG) Officials in Tioga County held a community wide zoom meeting Wednesday night to discuss their Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative.
The meeting was the second part of a process set in motion by Governor Cuomo s executive order from June directing local governments to take a close look at their police departments. The first part was a community survey that went out to residents in November asking them for feedback on the Tioga County Sheriff s Office.
Sheriff Gary Howard kicked off the meeting by detailing the extensive accreditation process the Sheriff s Office must go through to comply with strict state regulations that are already in place.