radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 07-10-26

Good morning.A political shakeup continues in Steuben County following a high-profile felony corruption conviction. Longtime councilman Mike Brenning has officially stepped in as the Interim Town Supervisor for Corning after former leader Jenniffer Tuttle entered a guilty plea to offering a false instrument for filing. Tuttle immediately resigned her executive post following state findings that she illegally obtained unemployment benefits from the Department of Labor while serving in office. Brenning will manage municipal operations until a special election is held this November.Meanwhile, a sprawling new independent report has laid bare critical oversight and systemic use-of-force failures inside several New York state prisons.And the state Division of Criminal Justice Services announced local police must sever all formal cooperation pacts with federal immigration authorities to qualify for seventy-five million dollars in tech grants.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.