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 […]
Saying she doesn’t believe her work is done, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced for re-election Monday evening before a crowd packed into Brue Coffee on Genesee Street. Mayor Warren says that work has included making Rochester a Sanctuary City, pushing for a higher minimum wage and fighting for city families and neighborhoods. She says over […]
The Rochester City Council has unanimously approved a resolution reaffirming the city’s 1986 Sanctuary City declaration. The action comes as the Trump Administration rolled out new policies on deporting illegal immigrants. The sanctuary resolution submitted by Mayor Lovely Warren was based on language vetted by State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of about a dozen […]