Police reform ordinances reach critical final votes at the Memphis City Council
Memphis City Council member JB Smiley Jr. met April 8 at Lester Community Center with critics of a consolidated police reform ordinance. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Under an amendment, the consolidated police reform ordinance on the Tuesday, April 11, agenda would stand alongside separate ordinances on the same general reforms.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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