Syracuse Citizens Review Board Chairman Donald Johnson says the board will resume investigating complaints against police starting on Monday.<\/p>\n
Johnson made that announcement during a meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The board stopped investigating complaints<\/a> in April following a court decision<\/a> against the Rochester Police Accountability Board, largely stripping that group of its power.<\/p>\n During Wednesday\u2019s meeting, Johnson said that only the common council can suspend its duties.<\/p>\n He said an opinion issued by the corporate council earlier this year is legal advice to the city and does not relieve the board of its duties.<\/p>\n Johnson also said that members can decide to stay on or turn in their resignation.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd finally, when I had enough people say verbally, \u2018I want to continue with the investigations,\u2019 then that\u2019s when I, as the chairman of the board, and with those people in agreement, that\u2019s how we came up with this,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n Both the mayor\u2019s office and Syracuse Police Department did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse Citizens Review Board Chairman Donald Johnson says the board will resume investigating complaints against police starting on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308,380],"class_list":["post-319979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}