REMOVE THE CLOAK OF SECRECY! POLICE TRANSPARENCY NOW!
Submitted by Knight0440 on Wed, 2015-08-26 22:28
Date/Time:
Wed, 9/16 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm
REMOVE THE CLOAK OF SECRECY! POLICE TRANSPARENCY NOW!
FEATURED SPEAKER:
Robert Freeman, Executive Director
NYS Committee on Open Government
Wednesday, September 16, 6:30 pm
Downtown Presbyterian Church
121 North Fitzhugh Street
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/476969659138554/
Freeman will speak about a law that enables police departments to refuse to disclose records and videos that demonstrate officer misconduct, even those that show the officer brutalizing or killing someone.
DID YOU KNOW?
Police departments can withhold records from public view?
Even if police are wearing body cameras, that video footage is not accessible by the public?
Almost all other government agencies in New York must release records to the public?
New York has a law specifically written to prevent disclosure of police records?
New York is the ONLY state in the country that has such a law?
WE BELIEVE:
The police have more power (life and death) over people’s lives at any given moment than any other government entity, therefore their actions and decisions should be more subject to transparency than any other entity.
There are “problem officers,” who usually have histories of misconduct, like Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner to death. If records of such previous misconduct had been available, then Garner’s death might have been prevented, or at least prosecuted.
The law that allows this to happen, 50-A, must be abolished!
JOIN US TO:
Learn about the consequences of the police’s lack of transparency.
Support those who have been racially profiled and brutalized.
Strategize ways to abolish the law that protects the police from accountability.
Sponsored By:
Enough Is Enough
@[1542148509337111:274:Rochester Coalition for Police Reform]
@[1416748401897928:274:United Christian Leadership Ministry of Western NY]
@[275777075770663:274:Metro Justice]
@[1532354523647035:274:FlyingSquirrel CommunitySpace]
@[167374873298500:274:Take Back the Land Rochester]
@[26598433507:274:Citizen Action of New York]
@[106138222116:274:New York Civil Liberties Union – NYCLU]
@[453522128020877:274:Facing Race, Embracing Equity]
Downtown Presbyterian Church Justice Team