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NYC Council holds hearing on buffer zone bill

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The City Council held a public hearing Feb. 25 on a bill that would let the police department make decisions about buffer zones around places of worship in the city. This is a new version of the original bill, which set a buffer zone of up to 100 feet. This version would let the NYPD decide whether there should be a buffer zone, how big it will be and and how long it will be enforced. Police would also have to implement the zone and tell protesters and those entering and leaving the place of worship that a buffer zone has been set up. This has been a highly charged issue for months, ever since pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside several synagogues.

Janice Kirkel is a lifelong award-winning journalist who has done everything from network newscasts to national and local sports reports to business newscasts to specialized reporting and editing in technical areas of business and finance such as bankruptcy, capital structure changes and reporting on the business of the investment business.