TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 22, 2023

Memphis city council members yesterday voted in favor of a measure designed to address police reform in the city on its first reading, WREG reports. But community members and reform advocates were upset that the version of the “Tyre Nichols Justice in Policing Ordinance” approved did not include a number of provisions approved in separate reform measures last week as reported by the Commercial Appeal. Council leadership said combining the reforms into one ordinance would clear up any ambiguity about the changes in the future. An ordinance dealing with the appropriate methods of enforcing traffic violations was tabled for the second time. Both ordinances will be up for consideration again at the next council meeting on April 4.