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Surveillance Won’t Resolve Unaddressed Poverty

3/3/2025

Surveillance Won’t Resolve Unaddressed Poverty

Opinion

Dr. Ashley Cross

Child abuse prevention policies frequently undermine family integrity by mischaracterizing parents struggling with poverty as neglectful, writes Dr. Ashley Cross.

Child Safety Must Be Better Documented in New York, State Comptroller Says

10/22/2024

Child Safety Must be Better Documented in New York, State Comptroller Says

Susanti Sarkar

New York's child welfare agency is facing criticism from the Office of the Comptroller over its child fatality reviews and issues with the state-run child protection hotline.

Three Years After Rochester Police Pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old, Here’s What’s Changed — And What Hasn’t

8/27/2024

Three Years After Rochester Police Pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old, Here’s What’s Changed — And What Hasn’t

Steven Yoder

Since police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl in 2021, the city and state have seen reforms in police use of force when it comes to children.

8/30/2023

Black Attorneys Give Rochester Residents a Rare Chance to Query Juvenile Justice Officials in a Town Hall

Adilia Watson

Dozens gathered in Rochester, New York, at a rare meeting of parents, community service providers, and attorneys to discuss juvenile justice.

4/20/2023

‘Solutions Not Suspensions!’ Rochester Parents and Students Rally to Stay in School

Adilia Watson

A proposed bill in NY would reduce the number of days a student could be suspended in a single school year to 20 days.

Rochester Child Psychiatrist Works with Community Groups to Heal Patients After They Leave the Hospital

5/26/2022

Rochester Child Psychiatrist Works with Community Groups to Heal Young Patients Wounded by Violence

Adilia Watson

In Rochester, child psychiatrist Michael Scharf is part of a team addressing the trauma of youth violence, and how to prevent it.

A Teen Remains At Large After Five Flee a Washington Youth Prison

12/27/2021

Top Stories of 2021: Schools Ponder Discipline, The Role of Law Enforcement

The Imprint staff reports

As in-person learning resumed in schools, an increase in concerning incidents had some districts reconsidering their choices to remove campus police.

A Teen Remains At Large After Five Flee a Washington Youth Prison

11/10/2021

Rochester School District Stations Police Outside Schools

Adilia Watson

School officials in Rochester, New York voted on Tuesday to station police officers outside the city’s 11 high schools when students arrive and leave their campuses each day.

As Student Struggle in Rochester, New York, Schools Consider Bringing Back Campus Police

11/8/2021

As Students Struggle in Rochester, New York, Schools Consider Bringing Back Campus Police

Adilia Watson

Police and private security have recently been posted outside Rochester City School District schools — an arrangement that could be extended pending a decision by school commissioners.

1/11/2021

Youth Justice Leader Brings Love for Hometown to Rochester

Susie Armitage

By Susie Armitage

Kwamaine Much, 31, in his hometown of Rochester, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Much
In September, Kwamaine Much was just starting his new job in his hometown of Rochester, New York, when the need for his work as a youth advocate became all too apparent: Protesters flooded the streets chanting the name of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after Rochester police suffocated him while he was in the midst of a mental health crisis.

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