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Adopt Critical-Incident Administrative Leave Standards for Kenny case

Last activity August 6, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

  1. Introduced

    July 31, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The City Council's resolution calls for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department to immediately adopt and apply administrative leave standards after in-custody deaths involving use of force. The action follows a homicide determination in Shacoby Kenny’s death and seeks policies including removal from detainee-contact assignments during investigations and future reviews when new facts arise.

Affects incarcerated individuals, correctional officers, and witnesses

Filed by Benjamin Jacob Weber, Henry Santana, Enrique Pepén, Erin Murphy, Ruthzee Louijeune, Ed Flynn, John FitzGerald, Brian Worrell, Julia Mejia, and Miniard Culpepper

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Resolution calling for the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department to adopt critical-incident administrative leave standards in light of the Medical Examiner's homicide determination in the death of Shacoby Kenny. On motion of Councilors Culpepper, Mejia, and Worrell, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted: yeas 11 (Breadon, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Mejia, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), present 1 (Durkan), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

Timeline

  1. August 5, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.

    City Council