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Now-former CRB Secretary Crouse: "Members of the board were handed a monumental task."
The Civilian Review Board’s secretary and most public-facing member has resigned, leaving the police accountability panel with yet another seat to fill as frustration-fueled vacancies steadily mount.
by | Sep 29, 2022 4:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Union lawyer Segar: Labor board should grant "interim relief" to pause COMPASS rollout.
A recently filed state labor board complaint by New Haven’s police union claims that the city failed to provide cops with a clear “program operational plan” in the runup to the start of training for a long-delayed effort to send social workers instead of police officers in response to certain 911 calls.
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by | Sep 29, 2022 2:01 pm | Comments (0)
A Fair Haven renter can stay in her apartment through the end of March per a court-struck agreement that will also see legal aid lawyers drop a recent appeal about “reasonable” attorney’s fees when a tenant beats an eviction case.
by | Sep 28, 2022 3:46 pm | Comments (4)
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Antonio Jones with his slain sister's daughter Alaia.
“Mom,” Antonio Jones told his mother Sandy Mesquita on the phone. “I’m on my way home.”
“Hurry up and come home,” Mesquita responded.
Antonio didn’t make it home. Instead Mesquita learned she will be burying her second child in two years.
by | Sep 28, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (7)
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Judge Cirello: "Golden rule" doesn't mean compensating tenants who didn't pay legal fees.
New Haven’s legal aid lawyers have filed a challenge to a judge’s ruling about what constitutes “reasonable” attorney’s fees from landlords when tenants beat eviction cases.
by | Sep 27, 2022 2:40 pm | Comments (30)
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Attorney Crump and civil rights advocates on Tuesday.
Richard “Randy” Cox’s lawyers have filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the city and five New Haven police officers seeking $100 million in damages for the cops’ alleged violations of the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener’s constitutional rights.
by | Sep 27, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (3)
City police are investigating a shooting in Newhallville that sent an injured 17-year-old to the hospital.
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by | Sep 27, 2022 11:10 am | Comments (15)
132 Newhall St. at Saturday's foreclosure auction.
A Newhallville two-family house that was built a decade ago by a local affordable homeownership nonprofit will soon be owned by the federal government — and then put out for sale again — after no bidders showed up to the property’s foreclosure auction.
by | Sep 27, 2022 8:42 am | Comments (2)
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Rabbi Greer.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer took the witness stand to testify about a strained relationship — not the sexual relationships previously described in court with his former student, but a business relationship with the family of one of those students.
Continue reading ‘Greer Centers Biz Dispute In Bid For New Trial’
by | Sep 23, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (12)
Attorney general candidate Ken Krayeske at WNHH FM.
Ken Krayeske is asking voters to elect him the next state attorney general so he can settle cases with civil-rights attorneys like himself who file lawsuits on behalf of brutalized prisoners.
Continue reading ‘AG Hopeful: State Shouldn't Fight Its Victims’
by | Sep 22, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
Hamden police have caught up with a 26-year-old driver who originally got away from them after striking a pedestrian who was holding a baby.
by | Sep 22, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (20)
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Union spokesman Segar: We're going to get to the bottom of this leak.
New Haven’s police union has filed a labor complaint to hold off the city’s long-delayed initiative to dispatch social workers instead of cops in response to certain 911 calls.
Continue reading ‘Union Complaint Further Stalls Crisis Team’
by | Sep 21, 2022 5:24 pm | Comments (19)
Non-fatal bike-car crash Tuesday at Orange St. and Lawrence St. In this case, the driver stayed on scene and cooperated with police.
City police have made arrests in two of last year’s fatal hit-and-run incidents — including in a case in which a New Haven driver allegedly struck a pedestrian on Chapel Street, drove for over eight minutes with the injured man lodged in the back of his car, and then stopped only to drag the pedestrian’s body out into the street and abandon him before fleeing the scene.
by | Sep 21, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (48)
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Sample image of an Axon drone.
The New Haven Police Department is planning to acquire two drones and a set of GPS equipment that can latch onto cars implicated in crimes.
Continue reading ‘NHPD Buying Drones, "StarChase" GPS Launchers’
by | Sep 20, 2022 1:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Board of Alders Majority Leader Furlow introducing legislation Monday.
The term “handicapped person” will be changed to “person with a disability” in city law, thanks to a comprehensive legal-language update approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Sep 20, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (25)
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Sports Haven: Place your bets while you can before trucks take over.
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City Plan Director Brown: "Unfortunate" that moratorium won't cover truck project.
A one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now in effect — but will almost certainly not stand in the way of a new truck trailer parking facility proposed for the current Sports Haven off-track-betting site.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Pause OK'd; Truck Lot Squeaks In’
by | Sep 20, 2022 9:51 am | Comments (1)
Jerald Barber.
New Haven voters will have a choice on Nov. 8 about who will become the next probate judge.
by | Sep 17, 2022 1:07 pm | Comments (7)
Three shootings in Fair Haven and the Hill left three different men injured and taken to the hospital Friday night, in what the police chief described as unrelated and likely targeted incidents of gunfire.
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by | Sep 15, 2022 4:23 pm | Comments (23)
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Ben Crump (center) with Cox's family, friends, lawyers Thursday.
Richard “Randy” Cox’s lawyers and family put the Elicker Administration on notice that, within the next seven to 10 days, they plan to file a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the city violated the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener’s civil rights.
by | Sep 15, 2022 4:11 pm | Comments (4)
Two 16-year-olds from New Haven and West Haven have been hit with criminal charges after allegedly shooting a 46-year-old man and stealing his car back in July.
Continue reading ‘2 Teens Arrested in Hamden Carjacking, Shooting’
by | Sep 14, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (1)
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Matthew Harp and attorney Karen Baldwin Kravetz in court Tuesday.
A state judge ordered local landlord Matthew Harp to pay $500 in fines for now-fixed housing code violations at two of his company’s New Haven rental properties.
by | Sep 13, 2022 3:40 pm | Comments (6)
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Eco-Urban Pioneers President Abdussabur on Monday.
Eco-Urban Pioneers (EUP), a locally owned custodial company, has gone to court to fight a decision by the Board of Education to go with a Massachusetts-based company called S.J. Services rather than renew its former school cleaning contract.
Continue reading ‘Local Firm Sues NHPS Over Cleaning-Contract Loss’
by | Sep 8, 2022 4:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Chief Jacobson and Asst. Chief Ettienne at Thursday's presser.
City detectives are investigating an alleged late-night assault on York Street as a potential hate crime perpetrated by a group of white men who beat up a Hispanic man while shouting racial slurs at him.
by | Sep 7, 2022 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Tenants union advocates Kay Pittman and Luke Melonakos-Harris celebrate Tuesday's vote.
Tenants unions now officially have a seat at the table in New Haven city government, thanks to a new law approved by alders Tuesday night.
by | Sep 7, 2022 12:01 pm | Comments (2)
Anthony Avallone, mediator.
Anthony Avallone, who spent a career making laws and then making legal decisions, is starting a new legal gig — aimed at helping people avoid going to court.