Police Accountability Board demands independence as it seeks to hire

The Police Accountability Board is once again arguing for its independence from City Council, this time in hiring new staffers.The Rochester Police Accountability Board is again demanding that it be able to hire who it wants, when it wants, over the objections of prominent city officials. The two sides are at odds over a memo from the city’s human resources director asserting that any potential employee be approved by the president of City Council.…