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  • Election 2016 results — turnout varies widely in precincts in Plain Press service area

    Election 2016 results – turnout varies widely in precincts in Plain Press service area (Plain Press, December 2016) Voters approved all three issues on the ballot in Cleveland this November. Of the three issues, the half percent hike in the payroll tax won by the smallest margin winning 51.36% to 48.64%, with 64,439 yes votes…

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    December 19, 2016

  • Community groups demand a higher standard from Cleveland City Council – urge rejection of Police Review Board Ballot Issue 33

    (Plain Press, November 2016)    Members from the Cleveland-based chapters of Black Lives Matter and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) are criticizing what they call weak revisions to the Police Review Board: a set of minor changes to appear before voters on this Election Day. The groups say Issue 33 is “a watered-down version…

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    November 20, 2016

  • Citizens offer input to proposed changes in the Cleveland Police Department’s use of force policy

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, October, 2016) Over one hundred people gathered at Urban Community School, on September 20th, to offer input to proposed changes in the Use of Force Policy from the Cleveland Police Monitoring Team. Residents were given a handout with a brief summary of current use of force policy and the proposed…

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    October 12, 2016

  • Clevelanders urged to get involved in police reform

    To the editor: (Plain Press, October, 2016)       The latest wave of terror, unleashed by the legalized killing of Black people, is re-traumatizing to many in Cleveland. LETTER Amidst this pain, white people are learning better to listen to people of color. As part of that, the group Showing Up for Racial Justice newly created a…

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    October 12, 2016

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    October 1, 2016

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    September 3, 2016

  • Cleveland Community Police Commission examines use of force policy

    (Plain Press, April, 2016) The Cleveland Community Police Commission held a Town Hall meeting on March 9th at Halloran Skating Rink to discuss use of force by the Cleveland Police Department. Guest presenters included Attorney Terry Gilbert and Latonya Goldsby of Black Lives Matter. The commission had invited a representative of the Cleveland Division of…

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    April 8, 2016

  • Cleveland Community Police Commission asks Monitoring Team’s help in “reset” of proposed City Charter provisions

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) At the December 17, 2015 meeting of the Cleveland Community Police Commission (CCPC) held at West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Avenue, members of the Monitoring Team, charged with overseeing compliance with the consent decree between the City of Cleveland and the Justice Department, talked to the commission…

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    January 5, 2016

  • Protest highlights restrictions on free speech at Cleveland City Hall

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) On December 7th about 40 protesters from The Committee for Social Justice and other civil rights groups gathered on the steps of Cleveland City Hall, prior to the evening City Council Meeting, to protest the “Cleveland Atrocity”, the involvement of 13 Cleveland Police Officers in firing the 137…

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    January 5, 2016

  • Graffiti vandals tagged this building

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    December 2, 2015

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