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Mayor Brian Shortall

Officers, Use Judgment: Law Allows You To Provide Mugshots To The Public

EDITORIAL Officers, Use Judgment:  Law Allows To Provide Mugshots To The Public The recently completed state budget contains a measure, championed by Governor Cuomo, that prohibits police departments from releasing mug shots of suspects. The other day, Monday, April 22, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Trooper C spokesman, declined to release a mug shot of Gabriel Truitt, 33, suspect in the Dec. 29 arson fire on Oneonta’s Walling Avenue, where former city firefighter John Heller was killed. Dembinska advised that, while the…
April 24, 2019

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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