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Worcester Human Rights Commission votes to require police provide annual data before presentations
Summary
The commission voted unanimously to require the Worcester Police Department to provide compiled data in advance of any meeting where it presents its annual answers; commissioners also asked staff to seek a posting location and to consider more frequent reviews once the department's new data system is active.
The Worcester Human Rights Commission voted unanimously July 26 to require the Worcester Police Department to provide the data it uses for its annual presentation to the commission in a single, compiled form before any future meeting where it appears.
Commissioners said the volume of material presented at the department's recent annual review was too large to evaluate effectively in the meeting itself and asked that the department deliver a single, searchable document — preferably a consolidated PDF — in advance so commissioners can prepare questions and proposals.
The vote follows several commissioners saying they had received pieces of the department's materials as separate files or in-system views rather than a single packet. The commission’s clerk, Patricia Lafore, said the chief equity officer and…
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