City Auditor Alex Marion’s review of the law was the first in about eight years. A committee established by the law hasn’t met since 2014.
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‘The blood in our veins’: Onondagas reignite effort to win back Maple Bay, a foothold on Onondaga Lake
The lake is sacred to the Onondaga, who have not had a foothold on a portion of its shore in nearly 200 years. The county has so far not been willing to give the Nation the land.
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How Project Mend is helping formerly incarcerated people and their families tell their stories
Project Mend was started by Syracuse University professor Patrick Berry, whose own family member’s incarceration prompted him to help incarcerated people tell their stories.
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Syracuse Housing Authority residents moving out contemplate their future — and their landlord’s
Relocation looms over uncertain tenants in the terraces of McKinney Manor, the first Syracuse Housing Authority complex slated for destruction ahead of neighborhood redevelopment.
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Syracuse police collect countless data points. How vulnerable is that data to ICE?
Daniel Schwarz, a member of the city’s Surveillance Technology Working Group, worries about the city’s data practices. State and city officials have said the city’s data is safe.
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Common Council pushes back on Syracuse police’s press for unpopular drone program
Lawmakers held a Public Safety Committee meeting meant to answer the council’s questions on the proposed drone program. SPD officials failed to assuage councilors’ concerns.
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Syracuse lawmakers vote to roll over fines imposed on landlords to tax bills
Rolling over the fines will make it easier for the city to collect about $2 million in fines that property owners have skirted in the last two years.
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Three Baldwinsville police officers took ‘demeaning’ photo of prisoner in 2005, documents reveal
Photograph ‘had great potential to bring discredit to the Baldwinsville Police Department,’ disciplinary records show. Officers took the photo shortly after U.S. military’s Abu Ghraib scandal.
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When conviction integrity units exonerate the innocent, prosecutors escape blame
In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
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Syracuse police again ask Common Council to approve funding for controversial drone program
SPD asked councilors in November 2024 to fund a “drone as first responder” program but skipped a review process meant to limit the use of surveillance technology in the city.
