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Schenectady committee reviews revisions to police complaint form, keeps perjury notice
Summary
The Schenectady City Council Public Safety Committee reviewed edits to the police department's complaint packet, agreeing to remove a notary requirement, leave a perjury warning required by city code, add language-preference prompts, and pursue translated and outreach materials; no formal adoption was taken.
The Schenectady City Council Public Safety Committee on June 9 reviewed proposed revisions to the police department's complaint packet, including removing a notary requirement and personal identifiers, adding a language-preference prompt and assistance resources, and clarifying which fields are for office use only, while retaining a city-code warning about false statements.
The committee said the changes are intended to make the form easier to complete and to increase transparency about how complaints are handled. Staff and police department representatives discussed moving any 'office use only' fields to the bottom of the form, making employer information optional, removing an unnecessary request for Social Security numbers, and replacing the notarization step with a simple attestation.
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