City Newspaper Archives - 2/2008
COUNTY LEGISLATURE: Metal detectors planned for tonight's meeting on public defender
Published on Feb 12, 2008
In advance of tonight's County Legislature meeting, deputies were setting up screening areas on the fourth floor of the County Office Building this morning and were planning to bring in metal detectors.
At the meeting, legislators are expected to name assistant public defender Tim Donaher as the county's new public defender. The legislature's selection process has drawn criticism from African-American leaders as well as the Monroe County Bar Association and the bishops of the Catholic and Episcopal dioceses.
Saturday's meeting of the legislature's Public Safety Committee, at which Donaher was recommended for the position, drew a large crowd of protestors. Police arrested State Assemblymember David Gantt and two other African-American community leaders, Franklin Florence and Raymond Scott, when they refused to leave the room in which the meeting was being held.
A similar large crowd is expected at tonight's meeting of the full legislature.
