Rochester Picks First Head of Police Accountability Board

By a unanimous vote, the Rochester City Council has approved Conor Dwyer Reynolds as the first executive director of the Police Accountability Board.

The vote followed several days of unease after a tense confirmation hearing on Thursday, Nov. 5.

Prior to that meeting, Reynolds had submitted a 10-page legal memo to Council Chief of Staff BJ Scanlon and the city's law department, asserting the PAB as a "a wholly independent body, non-subordinate agency of the city.”

Several councilmembers disagreed, with a belief the board is only assured independence from the Rochester Police Department.

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