Page 4 - Empowerment Coalition News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from Empowerment coalition. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In Empowerment Coalition Today - Breaking & Trending Today

Columbus program hopes to determine which 911 calls aret emergencies


The city of Columbus is rolling out a four-to-six-week pilot program on Monday that will help determine whether 911 calls need an emergency response by police and firefighter-medics or by others, such as social workers or clinicans who are better equipped to deal with mental health or substance abuse issues.
For far too often and long, we ve asked police officers to be social workers, medics, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said Friday during a news conference to announce what is being called the Alternative Response Pilot Program. The event was held at Columbus Public Health near Downtown.
A paramedic and Columbus Public Health clinician will be embedded in the city s 911 call center to help triage calls and determine whether police and fire should be responding to calls or someone else, said Columbus Fire Capt. Matt Parrish. ....

Dennis Jeffrey , Andrewj Ginther , Mark Ferenchik , Erika Clark Jones , Nicholas Reardon , Matt Parrish , Marian Stuckey , Mental Health Board , Addiction Crisis Center , Franklin County Mental Health , Empowerment Coalition , Columbus Police Cmdr , Columbus Public Health , Response Pilot Program , Drug And Mental Health , Alternative Response Pilot , Columbus Fire , Building Responsibility , Equality And Dignity , Miles Jackson , Mount Carmel , Makhia Bryant , Franklin County , Columbus City Council , Clark Jones , Columbus Public ,

Settlement in racial bias case includes sheriff's apology


COLLEGE PARK, Md.   
A Latina immigrant who said her detention during a traffic stop fit a pattern of racially discriminatory policing in a Maryland county has reached a $125,000 settlement that includes a written apology from the county’s sheriff, her attorneys said Thursday.
In his apology to Sara Haidee Aleman Medrano, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said the deputies involved in her detention hadn’t been properly trained on policies and proper procedures for handling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement warrants and deportation orders during routine criminal records checks
Medrano and a grassroots organization, Resources for Immigrant Support and Empowerment Coalition of Western Maryland, sued the sheriff’s office, Jenkins, two of his deputies and the county in July 2019. The federal lawsuit argued Jenkins has flouted limits on immigration enforcement duties by requiring an immigration check for everyone arrested and booked into the county jail ....

United States , Frederick County , El Salvador , Roxana Orellana Santos , Orellana Santo , Todd Wivell , Sara Haidee Aleman Medrano , Charles Jenkins , Brian Whittaker , Nicholas Steiner , American Civil Liberties Union Of Maryland , Empowerment Coalition Of Western Maryland , Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins , Customs Enforcement , Immigrant Support , Empowerment Coalition , Western Maryland , Toughest Immigration Sheriffs , American Civil Liberties Union , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , ஃப்ரெடரிக் கவுண்டி , எல் சால்வடார் , ரோக்ஷணா ஓரெல்ளான சாண்டோஸ் , ஓரெல்ளான சாண்டோ , சார்லஸ் ஜென்கின்ஸ் , பிரையன் விட்டேக்கர் ,