UPDATED 11:03 PM ET Feb. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:15 PM ET Feb. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:15 PM EST Feb. 17, 2021
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Oswego residents will see Officer Chelsea Giovo in their neighborhoods more often.
“It’s important to break down barriers and establish trust and transparency within the community,” said Giovo.
Community policing is just one way they’ll do that. The city’s common council recently approved the department’s police reform and reinvention proposal.
This comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order to adopt a plan by April 1, or lose state funding.
“A lot of the issues we saw nationwide certainly haven’t been documented and I don’t believe happened here,” said Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow. “But that being said, there’s always room to improve, and we want to prevent those situations from ever happening here.”
By Hayley Foran and Spectrum News Staff Oneida County UPDATED 9:45 AM ET Feb. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:13 PM ET Feb. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:13 PM EST Feb. 16, 2021
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Oneida County s two election commissioners have announced they are stepping down after numerous issues were discovered during the court battle over the 22nd Congressional District race.
Republican Claudia Tenney narrowly beat incumbent Democrat Anthony Brindisi, but it took three months of litigation before results were certified. Tenney s victory was certified just in the past two weeks.
The judge overseeing the case cited several problems with the Oneida County Board of Elections, including a failure to process many registration forms that were submitted by th
Senator Rachel May Explains Leaked Nursing Home Death Call PUBLISHED 7:13 PM ET Feb. 12, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:13 PM EST Feb. 12, 2021
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New York State Senator Rachel May, chair of the Senate Committee on Aging, was a part of the Zoom call earlier this week between state senators and Secretary to the Governor, Melisa DeRosa.
May is quoted in the transcript of the call saying “the issue for me, the biggest of all, is feeling like I needed to defend or at least not attack an administration that was appearing to be covering something up.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo s office on Friday morning released a partial transcript of a meeting held earlier this week between state lawmakers and aides to the governor discussing the deaths of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the meeting, top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa told lawmakers the administration delayed releasing answers to questions posed by legislators th