By Julie McCay Turner
District Attorney Marian T. Ryan, the Hon. John C. Cratsley (Ret.), State Senator James Eldridge, State Rep Sean Garbally, and Frederick Ryan, Chief of Police for Arlington, Massachusetts spoke to a gathering of Chiefs of Police and Community For Restorative Justice board members in a courtroom at Concord District Court on Friday afternoon, June 22.
Chief Robert Bongiorno and Detective Scott Jones represented the Bedford Police, and Bedford resident Margot Fleischman is the president of the Communities for Restorative Justice (C4RJ) board.
A full story about C4RJ, the inclusion of restorative justice principles, and the impact that multiple Bedford residents have had on the passage of Massachusetts’ criminal justice reform legislation will be published in The Bedford Citizen on Friday, June 29.