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The City of Poughkeepsie’s second police reform public Meeting was hosted by Mayor Rob Rolison, Director of Community Engagement John Penney (bottom, left to right), Captain Richard Wilson, Police Chief Tom Pape and Common Council member Yvonne Flowers (top, left to right). Tiana Headley/The Miscellany News.
City of Poughkeepsie residents offered both minor tweaks and major criticisms of the city’s draft response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order 203 at a Wednesday public forum. The order mandates policing modernization plans from police agencies state-wide.
Many commended the work of the city and the police department, but most participants cautioned that the draft is far from a perfect response to the governor’s historic mandate to address institutional racism and modernize policing practices.
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The City of Newburgh held a public hearing Monday night on its draft report on police reform. It’s part of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order requiring local police agencies to modernize their strategies and programs based on community input. One of the related laws the city adopted over the summer faced a lot of backlash, and the city manager announced at the start of the hearing that the law was now tabled.
Newburgh City Manager Joe Donat made the announcement before calling the names of the 23 people who signed up for the virtual public hearing.
“Now I understand that there’s some concerns out there regarding the information that is being requested of the community when they interact with the police,” Donat says. “So what we have done is we have pressed the pause button here.”