In Syracuse, advocacy groups pushing for policing reform shared their message from the steps of City Hall to the doors of Syracuse residents Saturday. 

SPAARC and Rebirth SYR took to the 17th Ward to canvas and speak to neighbors, discussing the People’s Agenda, a list of nine demands presented to the city earlier this summer.  

They presented petitions for support of the People’s Agenda, and to ban school resource officers from schools.  

“This is a very important neighborhood with a lot of voters and we want to influence some of these voters,” said Hasahn Bloodworth, Rebirth SYR organizer.  

The groups were also asking residents to call the common council and urge them to pass the act Right to Know Act, a reform to install dashboard cameras into patrol cars and equip all officers with body cameras, among other things.