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Kankakee resident urges change to search policy after personal incident
Summary
A public commenter told the Public Safety Committee he was searched by two female officers in January 2023 and asked the committee to add language to the department’s search policy giving individuals the option to choose the gender of a searching officer.
At the Aug. 5 meeting of the Kankakee Public Safety Committee, resident Carl Aldrich told the committee he was searched by two female officers in January 2023 and asked that the department add a sentence to its search policy asking whether a person prefers a male or female officer to conduct a search. Aldrich said the incident occurred between Jan. 1 and Jan. 10, 2023, when two female officers…
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