Rochester-area police departments and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office are readying the police reform plans which Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered them to have ready by April 1st. Under the order signed last June, departments must comply or face loss of state funding.
Mayor Lovely Warren and other city officials will release the city’s plan Thursday night at 7:00, streaming it live on the city Facebook page.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday it has submitted its plan to the County Legislature. Among many other steps, it creates a mental health degree program at Roberts Wesleyan College to train people for work on crisis intervention calls. The County’s FIT program teams mental health professionals and social workers with officers when responding to person in crisis calls, but it’s severely limited in staffing. The Sheriff’s Office hopes the Roberts Wesleyan program will begin to address that issue.