Police bodycams

The public housing agency made the video public shortly after Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard and Police Chief Wayne Drummond provided a brief update on the shooting. Cleveland police – a separate agency from CMHA police – are investigating the shooting.

A federal jury says CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies didn’t do enough to stop the flow of opioid pills into Lake and Trumbull counties in Northeast Ohio; Ohio will join a growing number of states whose highway troopers are equipped with body cameras; COVID cases remain high across Ohio heading into the Thanksgiving holiday; and more stories.

The rate of new coronavirus cases in Ohio is accelerating; former Akron City Councilman and mayoral candidate Joe Finley has died; Summit County Public Health will offer $100 gift cards this week to people getting their first COVID-19 shot; and more stories.

Akron City Council is considering a law that would require police to automatically post body camera footage within a week of an officer using deadly force; Dennis Kucinich will seek another bid for Cleveland mayor more than 40 years later; several Northeast Ohio municipalities are speaking out against an amendment slipped into the Senate’s state budget proposal that limits public broadband projects and cuts all broadband-related funding; and more stories.

Ohio on Sunday reported just 268 COVID-19 cases, the lowest single-day total since March of last year; the mass vaccination clinic at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center will administer its final doses today; the State Route 8 construction project moves into a new phase today in northern Summit County; and more stories.

The Ohio legislature has passed a bill that would ensure most police camera videos are public record. With unanimous support from the House and Senate,…