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review of police policy, according
to Foxworth.
"The internal administrative re
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view
is when we determine if it was
poena, but officials said they had
in policy or out of policy and what
hoped for the officer’s cixipera-
are the appropriate steps to take to
tion.
address an issue if it was out of
Still, Foxworth estimates that the
policy,” said Foxworth.
community will have the answers
Besides an internal review, the
they are looking for within 90 days.
chief called for the FBI to conduct
“When you look at timing ver
a civil rights investigation and the
sus quality, I think the citizens are
Chamber and N AACP have called
kxiking forquality. Over the next 90
for the U.S. Department of Justice
days, they’ll have some answers to
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the questions they have about
"It’s better for us to bring in
what happened,” said Foxworth.
public inquest, then closed-door
The timeline, which still does not grand jury priKeedings, followed people with no vested interest in
have a start date, begins with a by an internal investigation and the department,” Jay said.
"We believe as a police bureau,
we can withstand a review from any
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public agency,” Robinson said,
expressing confidence in the police
department.
Mayor Very Katz has asked that
the public proceedings be televised,
in an effort for an "open and trans
parent” investigation, but it was
not yet known if a network or public
access station would broadcast the
inquest.
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neighborhoods, that the people
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to see young black men and women
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(AP) — The Portland School
Board picked Pennsylvania’s
e d u c a tio n s e c re ta ry , V icki
Phillips, to lead the 53,000-stu-
dent district M onday night.
Phillips said earlier she is ea
ger to return to a school district
joh.
“I feel that I can have the
most direct effect on student
learning in a district,” Phillips
said in the statement. “Hands-
on education has, and will al
ways be, my first love.”
G o v . Ed R en d ell c a lle d
Phillips “one o f the education
industry's most progressive and
innovative minds.”
Her departure “will be a great
loss to the com m onwealth, but
she has done great work and
a c h ie v e d
g ro u n d b re a k in g
progress," Rendell said in the
statem ent.
She is scheduled to take over
the distict, which has about 100
schools and 50 special needs
centers, in August.
Vicki Phillips
Phillips takes over from Jim
Scherzinger, who becam e in
terim superintendent in Febru
ary of 2002 after Ben Canada,
the form er superintendent in
Atlanta, was asked to leave af
ter three years.
Scherzinger was made per
manent and retired in Septem
ber.
The other finalist was Robert
Lockamy, deputy superintendent
o f schools in Norfolk, Va.
Phillips was superintendent
of the 11 .(MX)-student Lancaster,
Pa. district for about four years
before assuming the state role.