Protest / Resistance

A press release for a press conference from the Police Accountability Board Alliance after being told by Council members that the legislation released in January would be amended.

The Police Accountability Board Alliance made the statement below on September 17, 2018 after reviewing the draft ordinance released by Rochester City Council:

Rochester City Council shared a draft of legislation for a Rochester Police Accountability Board with the Alliance recently. However, City Council’s draft fails to establish the five essential pillars of accountability that the Alliance has been demanding. The five essential pillars for an effective Police Accountability Board are:

A guide to Freedom Of Information Law (FOIL) requests in New York State.

The Spoils of FOIL, NYSTLI 02-24-16.pdf

The Spoils of FOIL, NYSTLI 02-24-16.pdf

The Ordinance Revision Committee of the Police Accountability Board Organizing Committe spent the month of October in 2017 revising and strengthening the ordinance found in the second half of the report "The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester, New York" co-authored by Barbara Lacker-Ware and Theodore Forsyth. The ordinance below should be replace the ordinance in the February 2017 report.

From the "Forward" of the Final Report of the Citizen's Committee on Police Affairs (1976):

This is the Report of the Citizens Committee on Police Affairs. It is the product of the work of fifteen persons appointed by the Honorable Thomas P. Ryan, Jr., Mayor of the City of Rochester, New York and the Rochester City Council.

The Committee was specifically charged to study and evaluate:

   a. The policy and procedures of the Rochester Police Department in regard to responding to crisis calls;

From the "Summary" of PATHWAYS TO BETTER POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN ROCHESTER (2004):

June 22, 2017 the same day Republicans unveiled their secretly written plan to replace Obamacare, a group was waiting to greet it with opposition. Indivisible, a group formed to explicitly oppose the Trump agenda was organizing an orderly visit to the local office of Senator Charles Schumer (D)NY to encourage and support his opposition to the Republican Act. About 25 people were present on notice of only a few hours.

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