Meet the Community Police Advisory Committee and its Chair Lisa Dominici.

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Meet the Community Police Advisory Committee and its Chair Lisa Dominici.
Your Name: Lisa Dominici
Name of the Committee you chair: Community Police Advisory Committee
Your role: Chair
MyRye.com: What is the charter for your Committee?
Dominici: The Community Police Advisory Committee was formed to increase community understanding and trust building between the police and community. The Committee has the same type of membership, organization and administration as other City of Rye advisory committees. The membership includes, but should not be limited to, the Commissioner for Public Safety, other assigned police officers; members of local clergy; representatives from community youth organizations, local merchants, and a diverse set of local residents. The Committee is not an oversight Committee.
The current members are:
- Bart DiNardo
- Lisa Dominici, Chair
- Faisal Khan
- Rev. Kate Malin (new as of 1/1/24)
- Patrick McGovern
- Latoya Anderson, Rye PD. ex-officio
- Mike Kopy, Public Safety Commissioner, ex-officio
- Ingraham Taylor
In general, the Committee:
- Monitors the implementation of the recommendations of the Police Review Committee, as set forth by the Police Review Committee and adopted by the City Council in March 2021.
- Provides a forum to collaboratively address police and community issues.
- Educates the public about police issues with the goal to improve community-police communications and relations.
- Educates the public and create a better understanding of police process and policy.
- Establishes ways to increase involvement of Rye PD officers as active participants in Rye community organizations and activities.

Looking at 2024, what will be your top initiatives?
Dominici:
- Formalize ways the Committee disseminates information shared during the monthly meetings by the Rye PD. This will include committee members identifying ways each individual will share the information to their friends/groups, as well as a quarterly committee highlight article/infographic sent to local media (MyRye.com, Rye Record, etc.).
- Expand and improve upon the community building events this Committee initiated in 2023, including the first National Night Out in August, and the Rye Youth Soccer end of season ice cream celebration in which 200 kids participated. Explore and implement new community-building opportunities.
- Ensure the public is aware of Committee meetings and how to contact us if there are issues that need to addressed or ideas to be shared.
Who is the City Council liaison to your Committee for 2024?
Dominici: A new City Council liaison has yet to be named. Formerly, Carolina Johnson served on both the Police Review Committee and the Police Advisory Committee.
Tell us about the residents or others you interact with at your Committee.
Dominici: The Police Advisory Committee holds meetings from 12 – 1:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month at the Locust Avenue Firehouse. Members of the public are welcome to attend. During each meeting, Committee members bring issues and concerns to the Committee that are voiced by Rye citizens in a variety of ways, including online or in person.
When was your Committee chartered by the City of Rye?
Dominici: In 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, former Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 203 instructed all local government entities in New York State with operating police agencies to perform a comprehensive and collaborative review of then current police force deployments, strategies, policies, procedures and practices and develop a plan to improve the same in order to best serve its community.
Pursuant to this Order, Mayor Cohn created the City of Rye Police Review Committee, and on March 18, 2021, the Police Review Committee put forth 18 recommendations that were approved on that day by City Council. One of the recommendations was the formation of a Community Police Advisory Committee.
Five of the seven Community Police Advisory Committee members were members of the Police Review Committee.
Looking back across 2023, what were your Committee’s top achievements?
Dominici:
- The Committee methodically reviewed the City of Rye Police Departments completion or progress on the set of 18 recommendations adopted by City Council as set forth from the Police Review Committee.
- The Police Advisory Committee organized and promoted Community/Police events, such as the City’s first National Night Out in August and an end of season ice-cream celebration in June with Rye Youth Soccer and the Rye PBA.
- Bidirectional information sharing between community and Rye PD. The Committee helps to facilitate communications between the community and the police depart, ie Committee members cross-post information on social media, and bring info from the Community to share with the PD.
Tell us about you:
How long have you been in the role?
Dominici: I was co-chair of the City of Rye Police Review Committee with Guy Dempsey and was asked by Mayor Cohn to chair the Community Police Advisory Committee. I have been Chair since its inception.
What is your day job?
Dominici: I am the executive director of the Rye Youth Council, which is a local nonprofit that supports the social, emotional, and mental health and wellbeing of local youth. [See Giving Rye: Meet the Rye Youth Council | MyRye.com]
How much time does your role require in a typical month?
Dominici: Serving as Chair of the Community Police Advisory Committee requires about 3 hours of my time each month. This includes the monthly meeting, minutes, communications like this, and planning.
How would your friends and family describe you in one word?
Dominici: Committee’s Answer – depends on who you ask!
Pick one:
Dominici: Answers are from the members of the Community Police Advisory Committee.
Select from: | Your Pick: |
Coke or Pepsi? | Pepsi 3-1 |
Regular or diet? | Diet 3-1 |
Action movie or rom com? | Action movie 4-1 |
Cook, order in or eat out? | Depends on the day |
Dog, cat or no pet? | Dog 5, Cat – 1 |
Balsamic vinaigrette or ranch? | 4-1 |
Ruffles Original, Lay’s Barbeque or Funyuns? | One closet Funyun eater, the rest bbq and original! |
Still, sparkling or tap? | Sparkling 2, Tap 1, Still 1 |
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why, and who would you take with you?
Dominici:
Faisal – Visit Nazaré, Portugal, with my family, to see the 100 foot surfing wave
Ingraham – Spain to see the bulls run, with my granddaughter.
Bart – Lake Powell in a Houseboat with my wife, Micheline.
Patrick – When it’s safe, Israel, with my wife Susan, because it is steeped in history and religion
Lisa: Kenya, Africa, on safari, with my three young adult children
Where do you live in Rye and how many years have you lived in the City?
Dominici:
Patrick – Grandview (Rye Park), almost 30 years
Ingraham – Cedar Place, 62 years – I was a RHS Garnet Class of ’72
Faisal – Forest Ave, 5 years
Bart – Clinton Ave (Little Dublin 35 years,
Latoya – n/a
Lisa –Red Oak Drive and Green Ave, 21 years
Thanks Lisa!