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Council President Lederman announces oversight meetings on Springfield police commission

The Springfield Board of Police Commissioners at their inaugural meeting on March 11, 2022. Clockwise from left are: Robert C. Jackson, Gary Berte, city attorney Talia Gee, Madeline Fernandez, Albert Tranghese, and Norman Roldan
Paul Tuthill
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The Springfield Board of Police Commissioners at their inaugural meeting on March 11, 2022. Clockwise from left are: Robert C. Jackson, Gary Berte, city attorney Talia Gee, Madeline Fernandez, Albert Tranghese, and Norman Roldan

First meeting is Wednesday October 5th

Springfield City Council President Jesse Lederman has announced plans to hold oversight hearings by the full Council on the implementation of the ordinance creating civilian oversight of the Springfield Police Department.

The first of these meetings, which Lederman intends to schedule quarterly, is this Wednesday.

These hearings will also look into the progress of police reforms called for in the consent decree with the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

The Council voted in 2018 to create the Board of Police Commissioners but had to sue Mayor Domenic Sarno to compel him to appoint the five board members, which he did earlier this year.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Lederman.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.