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Report recommends new department to shift responsibilities from Providence police

Community Service 04/13/2021

PROVIDENCE – The city could cut costs, improve services and make its police and fire departments more efficient by creating a new department to...

PROVIDENCE MAYOR JORGE O. ELORZA touted the accomplishments his administration has overseen in his "State of the City" address on Monday night. / PBN FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Providence shuts down parks, golf courses

Coronavirus 04/07/2020

PROVIDENCE – The city is shutting down parks, trails, golf courses and other public spaces after reports of crowds gathering over the weekend, Mayor...

Providence enacts further restrictions to nonessential businesses, crowd limits

Coronavirus 03/20/2020

PROVIDENCE - Beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, the city will prohibit gatherings of 10 or more people and close nonessential businesses, including gyms,...

Providence shuts down four more businesses for violating crowd, entertainment restrictions

Coronavirus 03/18/2020

PROVIDENCE – The city continues to crack down on businesses that violate restrictions on crowds and entertainment licenses, with four more shuttered since Sunday,...

COUNCIL BYPASS: A Providence City Council finance panel’s recent vote to effectively block a $39 million project from getting to the full council suggests it is time such projects be allowed to follow an administrative, rather than political, approval process.

Providence nightclub, bakery shut down for violating new gathering, entertainment restrictions

Government 03/15/2020

PROVIDENCE - A strip club and a bakery with a nightlife scene have been shut down for violating newly issued restrictions on live entertainment...

IMMIGRATION ACTIVIST: H. Jefferson Melish is a lawyer, as well as a member and activist on the South Kingstown Immigration Task Force and the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. South Kingstown is the only municipality in the state to adopt a version of an ACLU ordinance that rejects local police cooperation with a federal program that deputizes local police departments to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Long-simmering divisions on immigration have boiled over nationally. Is the Ocean...

Cover Story 06/29/2018

In March 2017 the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union drafted a model ordinance that would reject local police cooperation with...

THE PROVIDENCE POLICE department has been awarded a $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to work with The Providence Center and Roger Williams University to create a strategy to reduce recidivism in the use of emergency services by those suffering from alcohol or drug addiction and mental health issues.

PPD gets $700K Smart Policing Innovation Grant from D.O.J.

Government 03/27/2018

PROVIDENCE – The Providence Police Department received $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart Policing Initiative: Smart Policing Innovation Grant, the PPD announced...

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