LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 16
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Issue 5
Saying Goodbye Prominent Public Figures Retire
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February 4 – February 10, 2022
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CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD City Seeks Public Input on Police Oversight by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
Saratoga Hospital President and CEO Angelo G. Calbone
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — A hearing was staged at City Hall this week to secure public comments regarding specific measures in the potential formation of a civilian police review board. The formation of a Civilian Review Board, or CRB, was proposed by the ad hoc Saratoga Springs Police Reform Task Force last year.
“I would like public input as to any of the aspects of the proposal,” explained recently elected city Public Safety Commissioner James Montagnino. “I know there are a lot of people who would like to see this enacted exactly as written, but I have a number of concerns that I would like to hear some public input on.” Montagnino raised three specific issues during a gathering of the City Council Feb. 1. They relate to questions about how
the members of the CRB would be chosen, whether mediation should be mandated or be at the request of the complainant, and should no resolution be reached at that stage – asking whether requiring an “observance of the standard rules of evidence” be followed during an administrative hearing is too much a burden imposed upon a private citizen representing themselves. See Story pg. 9
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Assistant Police Chief John Catone
Photo by SuperSource Media.
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Jenson Little, André Patnode and Emily Holmes on Course to be the Next American Ninja Warrior Photos provided. See Story pg. 31
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