Frisco Town Manager Tony O’Rourke submitted a letter of resignation Jan. 17. O’Rourke was appointed to the position by Frisco Town Council at its July 13 meeting and began officially working Aug. 2. He replaced.
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Frisco Town Council appointed Tony O’Rourke as the new town manager during its meeting Tuesday, July 13. O’Rourke previously worked in Beaver Creek and Cañon City, Colorado; South Lake Tahoe, California; Yakima, Washington; and Panama City Beach and Coral Springs, Florida.
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Filling the shoes of Nancy Kerry, who announced her resignation as Frisco town manager in April, is Tony O’Rourke. Frisco Town Council unanimously approved the appointment during its regular meeting Tuesday, July 13.
O’Rourke also replaces Jeff Durbin, former town manager of Fraser in nearby Grand County, who became interim Frisco town manager in May. Durbin applied for the Frisco position in 2016 and again for the vacancy this year. Durbin said in an interview Wednesday, July 14, that he is now working on his transition plans to move on to his next adventure.
Police Reform Through a Power Lens
abstract
. Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have increased in volume and urgency in response to the 2020 national uprising against police violence, when radical demands born within social movements have gained steam demands to defund the police, to institute “people’s budgets,” and to give communities control over the state provision of security. In recent years, within this time of foment and possibility, social movements have been proposing, creating, and sometimes establishing new governance arrangements that shift power over policing to those who have been most harmed by mass criminalization and mass incarceration. These recent pushes by social movements for power shifting surface a fundamental set of questions about the very purpose of police reform, adding a new way for scholars and reformers to think abo