FORMER CITY RECREATION DIRECTOR Michael Stephens has taken on a new community relations role in the Providence Police Department following an eight-month controversy over his nomination to the position. / COURTESY CITY OF PROVIDENCE
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s choice for a newly created Providence Police Department role has at last been fulfilled. Michael Stephens, the former city recreation director, was quietly appointed as the “administrator of community relations and diversion services” for the city police department as of May 12, according to Lindsay Lague, a spokesperson for…