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A Savannah Police officer and two supervisors are on administrative leave after one shared an “inappropriate meme” in a group text message with co-workers, the SPD said in a statement. The department’s internal affairs division is investigating.
Caption William Harvey, 60, died in a Savannah Police Department interrogation room. Credit: Davis Bozeman Johnson Law Firm
Lawyers for the family of a man who died by hanging earlier this month in an SPD interrogation room said Thursday that the meme depicts a hanging.
“This department takes the actions in this incident seriously and is completely intolerant of insensitivity among its staff,” Chief Roy Minter said in the statement.
|April 29, 2021 at 4:33 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 11:57 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Three Savannah Police Department employees are on administrative leave during an Internal Affairs investigation stemming from a text message sent by an officer.
According to the department, a commander became aware on Monday, April 26, of an inappropriate meme that was shared to a text message group of SPD employees. Chief Roy Minter contacted Internal Affairs and an investigation was started that same day.
An officer involved was immediately placed on leave. Internal Affairs has since placed a corporal and sergeant on leave because they had knowledge of the message, according to the department.
|April 29, 2021 at 4:33 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 11:57 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Three Savannah Police Department employees are on administrative leave during an Internal Affairs investigation stemming from a text message sent by an officer.
According to the department, a commander became aware on Monday, April 26, of an inappropriate meme that was shared to a text message group of SPD employees. Chief Roy Minter contacted Internal Affairs and an investigation was started that same day.
An officer involved was immediately placed on leave. Internal Affairs has since placed a corporal and sergeant on leave because they had knowledge of the message, according to the department.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Tech Impact, a 501(c)(3) that empowers communities and nonprofits to use technology to better serve our world, today announced Francis Johnson, Managing Director, Technology Services at the nonprofit, has been named Nonprofit Technology Fellow for the Okta for Good Nonprofit Technology Initiative. The inaugural fellowship program, which received 340 applications from across the globe, aims to amplify the voices of leaders across the nonprofit sector advocating for a movement toward better use and implementation of technology. Johnson, one of eight Fellows, was awarded (via Tech Impact) a $25,000 grant to advance Tech for Good thought leadership throughout the six-month program.
SIR – What a wonderfully human person the Duke of Edinburgh was.
In the 1960s, when I was a resident in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, the doctor’s mess was ill decorated. A doctor suggested that the only way to get it redecorated was to invite royalty to visit.
We sent a letter inviting the Duke to dine in the doctor s mess. To our astonishment we received a reply saying that he would be delighted to accept the invitation on the next occasion that he was in Edinburgh.
We kept the date secret but word got out during the week of the visit. A host of workmen descended and very rapidly redecorated and transformed the mess.