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Trophy tribute honors legacy of Chris Carini By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
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At the dedication ceremony, league Commissioner Wayne Raso presented Danielle Carini and her two children, Joey and Ava, with a plaque honoring her late husband, Christopher Carini, who supported the league during his time as a town councilman.
In a heartfelt tribute to late Town of Hempstead Councilman Chris Carini, the Hometown Boys and Girls Flag Football League ended its spring season on March 30 by renaming its championship trophies in his honor. The dedication took place at Cedar Creek Park in Seaford, where Councilman Carini was remembered not only as a public official, but also as a devoted father. According to league Commissioner Wayne Raso, Carini regularly attended games to cheer on his now 13-year-old son Joey, who has played in the league for eight years. “He was a great guy with a great family,” Raso said. “He really, really cared about his community, his town, this county and this league.” The Hometown League, according to Raso, began in 2003 as a boys-only program and was rebranded in ContinueD on pAge 4
Police Department is implementing new data system By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Every police department uses a system that tracks data, arrests and other important information. For the past 10 years, the 77-member Long Beach Police Department has been using a records management system, or RMS, called Impact. Thinking it was time to upgrade, Acting Police Commissioner Richard DePalma and the department have been working for months to implement a new one, which they hope to have up and running by summer. The entirety of City Hall,
police headquarters and the city courts had a power outage on Monday, and as a result, all city workers had to do their work with pen and paper and manually enter it all online afterward. This new system would allow work to still be entered in cases like that. The new RMS costs $373,900, and has an annual maintenance fee of $175,000 after the first year. It’s expensive, but it also creates potential savings in other areas. The computer system in each of three city police vehicles costs roughly $15,000, and eliminating the n e e d fo r t h e m wo u l d c u t expenses by $45,000.
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t’s absolutely going to make us more efficient.
RICHARD DePAlMA Acting police commissioner The department also currently uses a system called Passport to help enforce parking tickets, but hopes to integrate parking enforcement into the new system, which would eliminate the revenue share. DePalma said that the department will also save money on server maintenance and in
other areas over time. Herald: What exactly is an RMS system? DePalma: So, basically, it’s a software suite that houses all the infor mation the Police Department collects. It’s basically the brain of the police department. When I was a young cop, all of the information that we
obtained went to a file cabinet. Now this records management system that we’re purchasing is a cloud-based system that can collect all of our information, and we can access it internally at our fingertips when we need it in an instant. Herald: What is the new ContinueD on pAge 12