Rochester’s deputy mayor is resigning. Dr. Cedric Alexander says he is leaving Rochester because of his mother’s poor health, and his desire to spend more time with her. Alexander says he’s leaving at the end of the year. Alexander’s replacement will be City Communications Director Jim Smith. Dr. Alexander is a former Rochester police chief. […]
Former Rochester Mayoral Candidate Rachel Barnhart’s good-government group “Rochester for All” is filing an ethics complaint against the City of Rochester. Barnhart says the city bought 100 copies of Deputy Mayor Cedric Alexander’s book “The New Guardians-Policing in America’s Communities for the 21st Century.” She says those books were given away during a July, […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has named former city Police Chief Cedric Alexander as the city’s new deputy mayor. Dr. Alexander replaces Len Redon, who retired last year and announced he was fighting cancer. Alexander was police chief under former Mayor Bill Johnson in the early 2000s. He left and became Director of Public Safety for […]