White Plains Police Reform Committee

City of White Plains Police Reform Committee

Janice Griffith, Chair
President, NAACP - White Plains/Greenburgh Branch
Joseph Castelli
Police Chief, White Plains Police Department
Myrlene Chauvette
Resident & Staff Member, Thomas H. Slater Community Center
Rosemarie Eller
Resident & President, White Plains Board of Education
Keyla Garcia
Resident & Staff Member, El Centro Hispano
Wade Hardy
Resident & Member, Westchester-Rockland Guardians Association
Katrina Jackson
Resident
Brian Johnson
White Plains PBA
Michelle Jones
Resident & Student, White Plains High School
Nada Khader
Director, WESPAC
Harriet Lowell
Resident & Chair, Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities
Patrick Macarchuk
Westchester County District Attorney’s Office
Kymberly McNair
My Sisters' Place
Patrick Schelle
Westchester Coalition for Police Reform
Captain James Spencer
Community Advocacy & Strategic Initiatives Division,
White Plains Police Department
Minister Donald Stevens
Resident & Deacon, Little Mt. Zion Holy Church
Bernie Thombs
Security Consultant for WP Housing Authority
Judy Troilo
Executive Director
The LOFT: LGBT Community Services Center
Reverend Erwin Lee Trollinger
Resident & Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church
Isabel Villar
Resident & Executive Director, El Centro Hispano
Marie Vitale
Resident & Local Attorney (Member of the 18B Assigned Counsel panel)
Frank Williams
Director, White Plains Youth Bureau
Richard Willstatter
Resident & Criminal Defense Attorney

View the Final report here: White Plains Police Reform Committee Final Report

The City of White Plains formed a Police Reform Committee in response to Governor Cuomo's "New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative" Executive Order 203.

Subsequent to the Executive Order, New York State issued detailed guidance for the Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative to all jurisdictions with police departments. Click Guidance to access the document.

The White Plains Police Reform Committee utilized this guidance to review the needs of the White Plains Community served by its police department, evaluate the department's current policies and practices, involve the full White Plains community in the discussion, develop policy recommendations resulting from this review, offer a plan for public comment, and present that plan to the White Plains Common Council.