The Rochester City Council will subpoena records from the city police department and the Center for Dispute Settlement in the Ricky Bryant case. Bryant is the Rochester 18-year-old who claims he was beaten by a number of officers while leaving last summer’s Puerto Rican festival. His family claims in a federal lawsuit that Bryant […]
There’s one fewer candidate running for Rochester City Council as of the weekend. Rochester LGBTQ activist Scotty Ginett has dropped out of the race for a Democratic council nomination and thrown his support to Matt Juda. Ginett says there’s been a gay member of City Council since the 1980s when Rochester elected the first openly […]
Former Monroe County legislator Willie Lightfoot is running for one of the five at-large seats coming up for election this year on the Rochester City Council. Two of the incumbents aren’t running for re-election, so at least two new faces will be on the council next year. Lightfoot is retiring after 20 years as a […]