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Groups ranging from the YWCA of Central Massachusetts to the Belmont AME Zion Church want a police review board in Worcester. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
WORCESTER, MA Eighteen churches, nonprofits and activist groups in Worcester are renewing calls for a civilian-led board to review complaints about police misconduct.
In a letter Wednesday to the mayor, City Council and City Manager Edward Augustus Jr., the groups said new reforms around race and policing in Worcester don t go far enough especially after recent publicized incidents of alleged police misconduct. Through the years, and over the past six months specifically, we have watched and suffered with the City s inability to respond to complaints from diverse community groups, faith leaders and even elected officials struggling to find resolution to incidents of systemic racism and police excessive force, said the letter signed by groups ranging from the YWCA of Central Mas
Worcesteria: John L. Foley not running for re-election to School Committee
Worcester Magazine
SCHOOL S OUT: Next year, Worcester is looking at having a potentially transformed School Committee. First, longtime committee member John F. Monfredo announced he wasn t running for re-election. Now, John L. Foley confided in a phone conversation that he ll be retiring at the end of his current term,
“I think its time,” said Foley. “It s been a long time I ve served the School Committee. It s time for other people to represent the community. Twenty-two years is a long time.”
While Foley still has most of a year left in his term, the move puts a new spotlight on the School Committee race. Currently, only current members Tracy O Connell Novick, Molly O. McCullough, Laura Clancy and Dianna Biancheria, and newcomers Jermoh Kamara and Sue Mailman have pulled papers. School Committee candidates need 300 signatures to qualify – challenging during a pandemic – and the deadline to
Instagram account targets Worcester police administration with allegations of mismanagement
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
An Instagram account questioning the decisions of Worcester police supervisors, mocking the fact that officer who was caught drunken driving is still on the force and airing what appears to be references to internal issues within the department has caught the attention of Worcester Police Chief Steven Sargent and command officials.
The account, revivingthejob, lists in the description, “WPD trying to make the job fun again one laugh at a time. You’re laughing but it’s true. These views don’t represent the department.”
There were about 60 followers of the account Monday night but dropped to 49 as of Tuesday morning, after the page caught the attention of police administration. The Instagram page is private, but MassLive had seen screenshots of the posts.
Worcester officials investigate claims that police protested officer’s suspension with coordinated ‘sick out’
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
The city of Worcester and its police department are investigating allegations that officers coordinated a “sick out” in response to a fellow officer receiving disciplinary measures.
The investigation stems from 14 officers calling out sick during the week Police Officer Ryan Joyal was issued a five-day suspension, MassLive learned. The officers who called out worked the same shift as Joyal, MassLive learned.
Joyal was given a five-day suspension earlier this month, sources told MassLive at the time the discipline was issued. The discipline stems from a video posted on Facebook in July that showed an officer strike man in a stretcher on Main Street in Worcester.