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Council refers Project Priceless petitions, holds request to unmask complainants under privilege
Summary
After hours of testimony, Worcester City Council referred petitions seeking an apology, shelter and reparations to the city manager and committees, and held a police-union petition that sought the DOJ's investigatory file under privilege to protect complainants.
The Worcester City Council spent substantial meeting time processing petitions filed in response to the Department of Justice summary of alleged misconduct by Worcester Police Department officers.
Council voted to send several petitions from Project Priceless — including requests for a formal city apology, allocation of a permanent women-only shelter and funding for reparations and survivor services (identified in the agenda as 7z, 7aa, 7bb and 7cc) — to the city manager and to the public-health and public-safety…
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