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Iowa City police outline community outreach plans, say funding cuts not affecting core programs
Summary
Iowa City Police Department staff briefed the Human Rights Commission on recent and planned outreach to immigrant, refugee and community groups and said current or proposed budget reductions have not disrupted core outreach activities.
Trey Hall, community outreach staff with the Iowa City Police Department, told the Iowa City Human Rights Commission on April 22 that department outreach to immigrant, refugee and other community groups remains active and that planned programming is not currently affected by funding reductions.
Hall told commissioners that Joshua Debusu, the department’s immigrant/refugee outreach specialist, has been meeting with Hispanic pastors to plan youth partnerships, coordinating with an African association that invited the department to its summer festival, attending the Sudanese Iowans…
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