Buffalo City Civil Service Committee 4/21/2026

Buffalo Common Council Committee on Civil Service · April 21, 2026

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Opening and roll call

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Clerk (speaker 2) called the Committee on Civil Service to order, read the date and performed roll call naming Council members Bowman, Nelkowski, Rivera, Everhart and Holden Poe; the clerk announced a quorum was present.

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The Buffalo Common Council Committee on Civil Service held a confirmation hearing on April 21, 2026, for the mayor’s nominee for police commissioner, Erica Shields. Council members questioned Shields at length about her record in Atlanta and Louisville, use-of-force incidents, community policing, union relations and department accountability; the committee moved to report the item without recommendation and adjourned.

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