With the terms of three councilors expiring at the end of the year, and the departure of two other councilors earlier this year, voters are set to choose
Officials in Schenectady hope to make a pocket park more visible with a major renovation and expansion. Orchard Park has been a pocket park for years In
The Schenectady police collaborative reform plan draft was presented virtually Monday night.
The online public hearing to discuss Schenectady s draft police reform plan, developed under a state mandate, came during a regular city council meeting. The reform plan was developed with assistance from the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety.
Officials say the plan was crafted after a series of virtual community meetings and discussions.
With a report due to the state by April 1st, the collaborative says it “reviewed current police deployments, strategies, policies, procedures, and practices to better address the needs of the community, promote community engagement to foster trust, fairness, and legitimacy, and to address any racial bias and disproportionate policing of communities of color.”
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Three newcomer candidates have been endorsed by major parties in contests for Schenectady’s city council, where five seats will be chosen this Election Day.
Schenectady’s Democratic committee formally endorsed two candidates Tuesday, Hailaeb Samuel and Carl Williams, to run for seats recently vacated on the city council. Both are political newcomers with experience serving on municipal committees in the city.
Samuel is on the board of the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority and the city’s Housing Review Board. He’s also an entrepreneur, serving as CEO of a tech services company.
“I have 25 employees and every night, every decision that we make is so that those families can continue to have the lives that they deserve. So I believe that everyone in Schenectady deserves to have the life that they want,” said Samuel.
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As a state mandated committee reviews police policies and procedures in Schenectady, the city’s existing Civilian Police Review Board is suggesting its own improvements.
In January, Schenectady’s Civilian Police Review Board submitted to the city council a report on a number of possible changes related to the board, which for years has been tasked with fostering communication between the city police department and the public.
Richard Shave is chair of the nine-member CPRB. Along with CPRB co-chair Carl Williams, he also serves on the city’s Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative steering committee, which has been examining police procedures over the last several months.