Speak Up: Kent County group aims to help minorities with vaccinations
A coalition formed in Kent County, with the goal of reaching minority communities with the COVID-19 vaccine, has helped about 6,000 individuals get vaccinated, the Rev. Rita Paige said during the coalition’s biweekly meeting. The initiative is between First State Community Action Agency, People’s Place, Bayhealth, NCALL Research, the United Way, the NAACP, the Delaware Division of Public Health, executive director of the Delaware Pharmacists Society Kim Robbins and several other community leaders and churches.
- Great work, all! Thank you for your dedication to our communities! — Deanna Rigby
Delaware lawmakers look to require police body cameras
Legislation filed recently would require law enforcement officers to wear body cameras and would establish a uniform policy for their use. House Bill 195 would mandate police and certain employees of the Department of Correction and the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families keep a body-worn camera on them to record interactions with members of the public. The measure also would direct the Council on Police Training to create regulations and standards for the use of body-worn cameras by all law enforcement officers in the state.
- Do away with criminal behavior, and then, the cops don’t have a job. — Howard Gaines III
- Will only be effective if it is on the whole shift and can only be turned off for private moments, like using the restroom. — Jake Phil
- How would you store that much video? Who wants to see them in their station talking to another officer or doing paperwork? Let’s be real. — Gary Melvin
- You keep all the data for six months. If there is an officer-involved incident, you can go and pull all the data from that incident separately. You can then save that forever, if necessary. You really wouldn’t have to hire someone. It’s all digital. You could email it in less than a minute. YouTube has archived every video uploaded for over a decade. It is streamable worldwide with a single click. Now, that is an extreme example. The state would be much smaller. — I understand the storage requirements behind such a system. It’s not the massive issue they are making it out to be. — Jake Phil
- Meanwhile, Delaware recognizes that more criminals need to be released because they don’t want to hurt the criminals’ feelings. — Scott Clegg
- If I was a chief, I would randomly select videos weekly and put them out publicly. Let everybody see how people act. — Gary Melvin
- So why would you have an issue with this? I can only see benefits. — Jaden Blondin
- I think they need to do this for prison guards and child protective services, as well. I also think that it’s a good idea for government officials. Let the public know exactly what’s going on behind closed doors. Transparency! — Haley Mills Morris
- Yes, yes and yes. Conservative states and small towns have had them for years. There is no reason for law enforcement in Delaware to not. — John Smith
- Yes, but first, all government officials. — Donna Williams
