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The Kelly Adirondack Center at Union College has been holding a series of virtual conversations on social justice issues in the Adirondack Park. It culminated Thursday with a discussion on “The Color of COVID” in the Park: an assessment of vaccine hesitancy among residents of color in the region.
The Kelly Adirondack Center at Union College is renowned for its Adirondack Research Center, which includes historical and scientific data on the Park.
Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Dr. Nicole Hylton Patterson serves on the New York state Equity Vaccine Task Force and the North Country Health Equity Task Force. She has taught courses on experimentation and exploitation of People of Color and finds current vaccine hesitancy can be traced back to historical medical experimentation and eugenics.
Press-Republican ELIZABETHTOWN Essex County has officially adopted and submitted to the state a new county sheriff’s department policy that sets a Law Enforcement Code of Ethics and specifies when deadly force may be used. Called “The Reform and Reinvention of Policing,” the 33-page plan was mandated by an executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that tied filing a plan to receiving future state aid. The county Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the plan at its March regular meeting.
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– The plan calls for deescalation of situations before force is used, and says only the amount of force necessary to control a situation should be used.
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