Feedback mixed on proposed earlier start to Schenectady City Council meetings | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – A proposal to start City Council meetings at 5:30 p.m., 90 minutes earlier than what’s dictated in city code, would either hinder public participation, or help professionals who want to attend meetings right after their workdays end, according to a public hearing on the matter this week.
After hearing from five people via email, and three in person Monday, the council will likely discuss the public hearing during a committee meeting on July 19.
If the proposal to change the city code passes there, the new legislation would be on the council’s July 26 agenda.
NDOC hasn’t implemented law capping deductions on inmate bank accounts Share
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To test if a new law restricting deductions on inmate bank accounts was working properly at the beginning of the month, Jodi Hocking deposited $10 for her husband, an inmate with the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Since September 2020, Return Strong, a prisoners advocacy group Hocking started, along with the ACLU of Nevada and other groups have decried the department’s policy that raided accounts and took up to 80% from inmates.
During this year’s legislative session, Sen. Melanie Scheible proposed a fix in Senate Bill 22 tocap how muchNDOC can deduct from inmates’ accounts. The bill, which went into effect July 1, limits deductions from friends and family at 25% and money earned through jobs at 50%.
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Saratoga Springs BLM leader, police respond to graphic comment to officer | The Daily Gazette
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SARATOGA SPRINGS – A Black Lives Matter activist told assembled media and onlookers this week that he found a police supervisor and the public safety commissioner’s recent comments “disgusting.”
That same activist then went inside City Hall and angrily told an officer to perform a sex act on him.
On Tuesday, after holding a press conference to criticize public remarks made by Assistant Police Chief John Catone and Public Safety Commissioner Robin Dalton, BLM activist Lexis Figuereo attended the City Council meeting.
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