Saratoga Springs Restricts No-Knock Warrants

by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY

SARATOGA SPRINGS —

The City Council by a 4-1 vote on April 18, approved a resolution that bans no-knock warrants except “in the most extreme circumstances.”

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policies, procedures, practices and develop a plan for improvement with community input.

The Saratoga Springs Police Reform Task Force was initiated two months later and tasked with developing recommendations along with the police chief and the city attorney to present to the City sometimes to take a stand on some things,” said city Mayor Ron Kim. “And this is one of them.” An Executive Order issued in June 2020 by then-N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo required local governments to perform a comprehensive review of its existing police force deployments, strategies, See Story pg. 10

Council. Portions of the subsequent “Reinvention Plan: Toward a Community-Centered Justice Initiative” was accepted by the previous council in March 2021, although it refrained from action regarding the plan’s recommendation to ban non-knock search warrants.