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The parent of a former Skaneateles student has sued the school district, claiming staff used a different name and pronouns for the student without the parent's consent as part of a "social transition."

Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, filed the suit on behalf of plaintiff Jennifer Vitsaxaki, of Skaneateles, in U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, on Wednesday. It accuses district staff of using a boy's name and the pronouns "they" and "them" to refer to the student, then 12, who is described in the suit as Vitsaxaki's daughter.

The suit goes on to accuse the Skaneateles Middle School guidance counselor, Christopher Viggiano, and psychologist, Vicky Powers, of instructing staff to use those terms in secret from聽Vitsaxaki. Staff continued to use the student's given name and female pronouns when communicating with the parent, the suit says, which happened regularly because the student was struggling with anxiety and depression. Meanwhile, the district was allegedly directing the student toward resources for making a medical transition, like local clinics, as well as sources of LGBTQIA support.

Vitsaxaki learned that school district staff were using a male name for her child about three months after they had begun doing so, the suit continues. In May 2021, the parent was told by Skaneateles Middle School Principal Michael Caraccio about the student's "gender support plan," which said that family was not considered supportive of the transition and the student was not ready to tell them.

The student then switched to online schooling, and was enrolled in private school in Syracuse the next year. The student's "demeanor and physical health" noticeably improved, the suit says. The cost of the school's tuition, and travel there, are among the damages聽Vitsaxaki seeks from Skaneateles as a result of violating her Greek orthodox religious beliefs and parental rights, the suit continues.

The suit says Skaneateles staff told聽Vitsaxaki聽they were following district policy. The obligation of educators to inform parents that a student prefers a different name, or is otherwise experiencing gender dysphoria, is at issue in聽. Many were brought by Alliance Defending Freedom, which is as an anti-LGBTQIA hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The school district's superintendent, Eric Knuth, told 新加坡多多开奖记录 on Monday that "we are not at liberty to discuss individual students or legal matters with the press."聽

However, Knuth noted that as a public school district, Skaneateles adheres to the New York State Education Department's guidance on "Creating a Safe, Supportive, and Affirming School Environment for Transgender and Gender Expansive Students," issued in 2015 and updated in 2023,聽as well as the New York State Human Rights Law of 2021. The department's guidance states, "only the student knows whether it is safe to share their identity with caregivers, and schools should be mindful that some TGE students do not want or cannot have their parents/guardians know about their transgender status."

"We respect diversity in all of our students and our primary concern is to ensure that every child feels safe and supported at school," he said.

Another rare photo of Harriet Tubman has been released by a Maryland tour group, this one capturing her at the age of about 70.

Alex Green, owner of聽,聽told 新加坡多多开奖记录 the 1892 photo聽 from an edition of The Household Magazine.

Tubman is pictured聽wearing a dark dress with a decorative collar and a hair pin. Below the photo, she is referred to as "Harriet, the Modern Moses, now living in Auburn, N.Y."

An article with the photo includes a lengthy quote from Tubman about her visit as a teen to the Bucktown General Store in Dorchester County, where she was struck in the head by a 2-pound weight thrown by a slaveowner at another enslaved person. The weight fractured her skull, resulting in epilepsy and what she believed were spiritual visions that she experienced for the rest of her life.

Green noted that the quote is an example of "plantation dialect," which racistly stylizes the speech of Black people.聽

Tubman biographer聽Kate Clifford Larson聽posted the photo on her Facebook page on Wednesday, the civil rights icon "beautiful" and commenting, "such style!" The biographer thanked Green and his wife, Lisa, for finding the photo. In comments below her post, Larson expressed hope that the original could be found as well.

Harriet Tubman Tours previously released a rare photo of the group's namesake in December. That photo, from 1908, pictured her standing in front of her home on South Street in Auburn.聽

Green said he hopes the photos generate more interest in Tubman, her life and her work to achieve freedom for all.

"I thought it'd be interesting to move the needle forward with her wonderful life," he told 新加坡多多开奖记录 in December. "History has so much to catch up to."

Gallery: Photographs of Harriet Tubman

Police said a man attacked a woman who was walking her dog on the side of the road in the town of Sennett on Friday morning, and was chased off by the shouts of a neighbor who saw it happening.

The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office said in a news release on Monday that the woman was walking her dog in the area of Rockingham Road at about 8:50 a.m. Friday. After she passed a parked dump utility trailer, a man jumped out of the trailer. She tried to get away from him, but he began strangling her.

A neighbor witnessed the struggle and began shouting while calling 911, the sheriff's office said, and the man released the woman and fled on foot into the Highland Park Golf Course.

John T. Netti, whom police said is a stranger to the victim, was located on the golf course聽by members of the sheriff's office and the Auburn Police Department, and was taken into custody. He was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor, and is set to appear in Sennett Town Court at a later date. A full stay-away order of protection was issued between the victim and Netti.

Police said that under state regulations, Netti could not be held on bail for the charge.

A former correction officer at a state prison in central New York has been sentenced after admitting to submitting false medical notes to obtain sick leave.聽

Stephanie Saber, 29, will serve five years probation after pleading guilty in November to first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. She was sentenced by Seneca County Judge Barry Porsch.聽

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which oversees New York's prisons, referred the matter to the state inspector general's office. The inspector general's investigation found Saber, who was employed at Five Points Correctional Facility in Seneca County, submitted 13 false medical notes between December 2021 and July 2022.聽

Saber told investigators she filed the notes, which claimed to be from medical practitioners, as excuses for work absences.聽

"The conduct of this correction officer abusing sick leave benefits is particularly egregious because she was in a prime position to know the impact that shortages in correctional facility staffing pose to the safety of staff and incarcerated individuals alike," Inspector General Lucy Lang said. "By forging these notes to justify unwarranted sick days, she betrayed not only her oath to New York state but her colleagues."聽

Saber no longer works for DOCCS. The department fired her during the investigation and cooperated with the inspector general's inquiry.聽

Daniel Martuscello, acting DOCCS commissioner, said the sentencing shows the department "will not tolerate fraudulent misconduct from staff."聽

"As we face critical staffing shortages, this type of behavior further exacerbates the difficulties of this job and does a disservice to the hardworking staff who show up day in and day out to help keep our communities safe," Martuscello added.聽

Lang thanked the state police for assisting with Saber's arrest and Seneca County District Attorney John Nabinger for prosecuting the case.聽

新加坡多多开奖记录 has found no indication that the Southern Cayuga Central School District investigated a romantic relationship between a teaching assistant and a former student, who is now a murder suspect, despite being told about it several years ago by the teaching assistant's adult children. They also told 新加坡多多开奖记录 that they believe the relationship began while the student was still in the district.

The now-former teaching assistant, Mary Ferro,聽testified at a Cayuga County Court hearing Jan. 19 that she began a relationship with former student Gage Ashley "sometime after 2017," the year he turned 20. The hearing concerned the legality of a police search of her Aurelius home days after the November 2019 shooting death of Joshua Poole in Auburn, for which Ashley is facing聽murder charges.

Ferro testified that she met Ashley in 2014, and that he lived with her at a previous home in Aurelius from February to fall 2015. However, her children believe she was having sex with him during that time, when he was 17 going on 18 and . Two years later, after witnessing that they were indeed having a romantic relationship, the children reported it to the school district's superintendent, Patrick Jensen, in an email. They noted community rumors about the relationship, and said they were worried about their mother continuing to work in the district.

"We are unsure what consequences our mother will face at this point. We are trying to allow anyone with connections to her the chance to make their own decisions before this becomes public," said the 2017 email, which was written by Ferro's daughter Jessica Kessler. "This will be and is humiliating for us, but if we can save anyone else from being blindsided with the news, we would like to."

Kessler said Jensen responded promptly, asking if the siblings had any proof of the relationship. She said they didn't, but they were willing to share what they knew with the district. Kessler also told Jensen that proof could emerge from the divorce proceedings of her mother and her father, John Ferro. In her testimony, Mary Ferro said they separated in 2015 and he filed for divorce in 2018.

Still, Kessler and her siblings never heard from Jensen again.

"I was pretty disappointed that they wouldn't even look into it, because at that point, I was like, 'If she's doing it with this kid, is there any others?'" Ferro's other daughter, Melissa Ekiert, told 新加坡多多开奖记录.

"Wouldn't the school want to know?"

The district was again confronted with the possibility of Ferro and Ashley having a romantic relationship in 2019, when two New York State Troopers investigating Poole's murder arrived at Southern Cayuga High School to ask why Ashley had the teaching assistant's vehicle. School Principal Luke Carnicelli covered her classroom while she spoke with the officers, she recalled during her testimony.聽

Asked by 新加坡多多开奖记录 about the relationship and whether the school district has investigated it, Jensen has repeatedly declined comment, saying he is unable to discuss personnel matters.

Two Freedom of Information Law requests concerning the relationship were also denied by the school district, which told 新加坡多多开奖记录 the records in question include attorney-client privileged information and records whose publication would constitute an invasion of personal privacy. The district further noted that the state Committee on Open Government and state courts allow for the withholding of records pertaining to allegations of misconduct against public employees when they "have not yet been determined, were dismissed or found to be without merit, or did not result in disciplinary action."聽

The New York State Department of Education's 聽say that when a school receives information suggesting that someone holding a teaching certificate has committed聽an act that "raises a reasonable question as to the individual's moral character," that information must be referred to the department. However, when asked by 新加坡多多开奖记录 whether the department has received such information from Southern Cayuga, a representative said it does not confirm or deny the existence of investigations "in order to protect the fairness and integrity of our processes."聽

Ferro testified that聽questions by reporters about her relationship with Ashley, and his "notoriety," led Southern Cayuga to ask for her resignation in December. Records show she began with the district in September 1982 and obtained her teaching assistant certification in February 1987. Ashley, who was born on Aug. 16, 1997, was a student at the high school from December 2013 to October 2015.

Now 26, Ashley will go on trial in March聽for first-degree murder and other charges. He was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 21 years to life in December 2021, but the conviction was overturned after a state appeals court聽聽the grand jury that indicted him was illegally constituted. He is one of four men charged with Poole's murder, and the other three have been convicted.

The Cayuga County District Attorney's Office has declined comment to 新加坡多多开奖记录 on Ashley's relationship with Ferro due to the upcoming trial.

'Inappropriate' and 'inexcusable'

Kessler and Ekiert thought it was strange when 17-year-old Ashley moved into their parents' Aurelius home in 2015.

They were told Ashley's mother was moving out of the area, they said. Because he attended Southern Cayuga and Ferro worked there, he would stay with her so he could continue attending the school until graduation. They also knew Ashley had a difficult background, and that their mother was struggling after her youngest child, Johnathan, left for college. So the children accepted it.

Once he moved in, Ashley often hovered around Ferro, Kessler said. Ekiert said her mother's behavior changed as well. She began riding the family's go-karts around their wooded property, something she refused to do previously. When Ferro brought Ashley along for the family's annual trip to North Carolina, she let him smoke in the car after years of forbidding her children from doing the same.

By July 2017, Kessler said, she had been defending Ferro against community rumors that she was in a relationship with Ashley for a couple years. Her mother denied them, and she believed her.聽

Then, one night, Kessler received a call from her other brother, Robert. He and their mother were living in neighboring apartments that shared a wall. Distressed, he told his sister that he could hear Ferro and Ashley having sex. Kessler drove to the apartment, and the two siblings knocked on their mother's door. She said she was sleeping. But when Kessler opened a closet door, she found Ashley.

Ferro had lied to her children. And though Ashley was 19 years old at the time, he was still a former student at her school 鈥� one she took into her home, Kessler said.

The four siblings have not spoken to their mother since.

"There's nothing she could do, say, come back from. That's where our relationship died," Kessler said. "Whatever is happening, this is inappropriate. It's inexcusable."

Romantic partner of Auburn murder suspect says police search was illegal

The romantic partner of an Auburn murder suspect said in court Friday that she did not sign a consent form to have her home searched by police during the investigation.

DEWITT 鈥� Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday gave three Cayuga County villages 10 million reasons to be excited about the future.聽

Hochul, who visited PPC Broadband in DeWitt, announced Aurora, Cayuga and Union Springs are the winners of a $10 million state grant through the Downtown Revitalization Initiative 鈥� the same contest the city of Auburn won in 2018. The funding will support projects that will be determined through a planning process in the coming months.聽

The villages, according to Hochul, represent a "unique consortium."聽

"A group of communities that came together and said we can be extraordinary by pooling our resources together," Hochul said.聽

When the Downtown Revitalization Initiative launched in 2016, cities, towns and villages could vie for $10 million awards in each of the state's 10 economic development regions. Central New York is comprised of Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and Oswego counties.聽

A change to the contest rules in 2022 allowed for joint applicants. Aurora, Cayuga and Union Springs considered submitting a joint application that year, but it was too late in the process.聽

In the latest round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, the villages decided to collaborate on a joint application. With the assistance of the Cayuga County Department of Planning and Economic Development, the municipalities submitted their application in September.聽

The proposal sought funding for 44 projects, including a mixed-use retail development in Cayuga, the construction of a three-story building with retail space and apartments in Union Springs, and a new waterfront park in Aurora.聽

There was a mix of public and private projects in the application. Kari Terwilliger, associate planner with the Cayuga County Department of Planning and Economic Development, previously told 新加坡多多开奖记录 that adding more private projects was based on feedback they received from the state when the villages applied for a different program, NY Forward, in 2022.聽

The villages did not win grants through NY Forward, which focuses on downtown areas in rural communities. (The village of Moravia was one of the winners last year.)聽

Through community outreach and public events, the villages gathered project ideas to include in the application. In the final submission, 28 of the 44 proposed projects were from private entities.聽

As the leaders of the villages learned Monday, the months-long effort was a success.聽

"It's surreal," Cayuga Mayor Don Wilson Jr. said. "We deserve it. The people of Cayuga deserve it. Union Springs and Aurora are no different. It's a long time coming, in my opinion, for our region ... It's going to change the face of the village of Cayuga and our future forever."聽

Union Springs Mayor Rob Thurston Jr. described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" for his village. He's eager to see the plan move forward.聽

"To have this opportunity to drive so much change for our community, it's going to be amazing," Thurston said.聽

Aurora Mayor Jim Orman added, "It demonstrated a collaboration among three villages, which no one else has done. We're proud of it and we hope to use it to jumpstart our affordable housing and our private sector (investments) in Aurora."聽

The state will assist the communities with developing a strategic plan and identifying projects that will be supported by the $10 million grant. A local planning committee will be created to oversee the process.聽

The sale of Harriet Tubman commemorative coins is off to a solid start.聽

Since the preorder period began Jan. 4, 45,839 coins have been sold, according to data released by the U.S. Mint. Nearly a quarter of those coins are part of sets featuring a $5 gold coin, silver dollar and clad half-dollar. As of Sunday, 3,398 sets have been sold.聽

The most popular option for coin buyers is the Tubman silver dollar. The U.S. Mint reports 13,372 proof silver dollars and 5,319 uncirculated coins have been ordered.聽

Sales of the clad half-dollar proof coins totaled 9,702, while 5,162 uncirculated half-dollars were sold.聽

Despite being the most expensive coins, there were 1,196 Tubman gold proof coins and 894 uncirculated coins sold in the first month.聽

The three-coin set costs $836.25. A limit of 5,000 sets will be sold. The gold coins cost $723 (proof) and $713 (uncirculated). The silver dollars are priced at $87 (proof) and $82 (uncirculated), while the half-dollars can be purchased for $54 (proof) and $52 (uncirculated).聽

The difference between proof and uncirculated coins is that proofs are "the finest quality coins produced by the U.S. Mint," according to the Mint's website.聽

Congress passed legislation in 2022 to authorize the Harriet Tubman commemorative coin program. The bill, which was signed by President Joe Biden, directs the U.S. Mint to produce up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 silver dollars and 750,000 half-dollar clad coins.聽

Proceeds from the surcharges paid for each coin 鈥� $35 for gold coins, $10 for silver dollars and $5 for the clad coins 鈥� will go to the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.聽

There is a limit of two commemorative coin programs annually. In 2021, the commemorative coins honored Christa McAuliffe, a teacher who died in the space shuttle Challenger explosion, and the National Law Enforcement Memorial & Museum. The U.S. Mint sold 89,082 coins benefiting the museum, while 70,229 McAuliffe silver dollars were sold.聽

The best-selling commemorative coins in the last 10 years were sold to benefit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. The U.S. Mint sold 884,892 coins in 2014.聽

New York state's enforcement action against the I'm Stuck chain of unlicensed cannabis dispensaries, which included two locations in Cayuga County, continues to unfold in court.

After a Jan. 31 conference in Wayne County Supreme Court, I'm Stuck owner David Tulley was ordered to produce to the state Office of Cannabis Management all sales and bank records for his now-closed businesses by March 16. That information will be used to calculate fines for Tulley, according to court records. New legislation in May increased the fines for unlicensed cannabis sales to $10,000 per day, or $20,000 per day if an order to cease has been received, as well as five times the revenue of those sales or no more than three times the projected revenue of sales of seized inventory.

I'm Stuck opened at 9 E. Genesee St. in Auburn in January 2023, and I'm Stuck Presents the Weed Warehouse opened at聽2020 Crane Brook Drive in the town of Aurelius the previous year. In late June they were raided by authorities, along with six other I'm Stuck locations in central New York, and ordered to cease sales. They were padlocked聽by the state in early August. Tulley could therefore face more than $2 million in fines for his Auburn location alone, and even more than that amount for his Aurelius one. He did not respond to a request for comment by 新加坡多多开奖记录 on Wednesday.

The fines are part of a new enforcement strategy that also includes partnerships with the Department of Labor and Workers Compensation Board, according to the Office of Cannabis Management.

"This approach, which combines the enforcement powers of labor law, tax law, and cannabis law, can result in non-compliant business owners potentially facing tens of thousands of dollars in penalties as the result of a single inspection and violations, significantly enhances the state鈥檚 ability to crack down on those who engage in illicit sales, and reaffirms (Gov. Kathy Hochul's) deep commitment to ensuring that the law is being followed and that New Yorkers are protected from potentially unsafe products," the Office of Cannabis Management said in a Feb. 5 news release.

Under the new legislation, similar fines can be imposed against the owners of properties where unlicensed dispensaries operate. However, Tulley's landlords were dismissed from the state's enforcement action in a Dec. 29 order. The same order gave police jurisdiction to remove any remaining cannabis sales items from the properties where Tulley operated, which the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office did on Jan. 24 in Auburn and Aurelius, Sheriff Brian Schenck told 新加坡多多开奖记录. That month's wind storm also blew away the I'm Stuck billboard Tulley had been聽leasing above 9 E. Genesee St.

Meanwhile, Tulley is no longer represented by New York City cannabis attorney Joseph A. Bondy, who informed Wayne County Supreme Court on Jan. 8 that he has been relieved as counsel. Three days earlier, a burglary alarm at I'm Stuck at 20 Canal St. in the town of Lyons led Wayne County Sheriff's Office deputies to call Tulley, who told them he had removed items from the building days prior despite being聽prohibited from his businesses since they were padlocked. An "Office of Cannabis Management" sticker on a safe was ripped, deputies said, indicating the safe had been opened.

I'm Stuck sold "consultations" about cannabis products, technically making the products gifts. The chain's locations were the first "gray market" dispensaries shut down by the state as it launches the legal market promised by the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act of March 2021. The state celebrated the opening of its 50th dispensary, Brownies in the Albany County town of Colonie, on Tuesday.

I have been thinking a lot about how to say goodbye. Sharing Legends of Auburn stories has been a whole lot of fun. But first I must say "thank you" to 新加坡多多开奖记录, the Ormie King family, and all of you, the readers! Just one year ago, I wasn鈥檛 sure what to think of this journey; but I can tell you, it made me nervous. My goal 鈥� to get it right, storytelling that would reflect this wonderful community.

The local newspaper was once a given tradition in almost every household, the morning Post-Standard and the evening Citizen (often 鈥渄elivered鈥� to my childhood home by my brothers.) 新加坡多多开奖记录 has showed up in my life in many ways 鈥� after Sunday Mass, 鈥渇unnies鈥� were shared from one sibling to the next at the breakfast table. I pondered why my grandmother always opened her copy of 新加坡多多开奖记录 to the obituary page! It was exciting when the newspaper reported on our neighborhood multiple dystrophy carnival, and oh the thrill when the sports section had your name or photo. That was soon followed by engagement, wedding and baby photos. Emerging into adulthood, I began to read the whole paper more completely (local, state and national). Then the shift: It was my children鈥檚 names in the paper, and I was so proud of Maggie sharing a monthly story highlighting her Rotary Youth Exchange year in Australia, and Andrew鈥檚 first job 鈥� delivering the newspaper. Through it all was Ormie King sharing his Legends of Auburn stories. I grew up gaining an appreciation for our local paper 鈥� articles that documented truth and stories that celebrated local!

It鈥檚 easy to take things for granted. Life can be a bit challenging with so many easily accessible outside influences in our technology-driven lives. Judy Woodruff from "PBS NewsHour" (Aug. 30, 2023) recently 鈥渆xamined how the loss of thousands of local newspapers across the country is depriving communities of some of the glue that holds them together.鈥� Consider carefully: If local news goes away, what are we left with?

In 2023 I focused on Legends stories; I have a fun new adventure planned for 2024, and you can participate! A number of years ago I declared my New Year鈥檚 鈥� not resolution, but rather project 鈥� was to regularly send postcards throughout the year. It was fun and I was hooked. That was followed by the start of a little business called The Postcard Project. I decided to make postcards because selections locally were limited. It turned into a 鈥減assion鈥� project, and to date I have donated over $6,000 in proceeds to the community: the Auburn Education Foundation and the Finger Lakes Land Trust. That is a lot of postcards, purchased by so many thoughtful folks!

Join me in my 2024 Little Free Postcard Mailbox project! A red-white-and-blue mailbox is now located in front of the Hoopes Park clubhouse! The flag is up, meaning 鈥測ou鈥檝e got mail!鈥� That鈥檚 right, this is a community mailbox, and I invite all of you to stop by and take a postcard. Each week I will place seven new postcards in the mailbox, and one will even have a stamp. Enjoy 鈥� jot a note and surprise someone with a handwritten postcard, engage your children or grandchildren by sending postcards, use them as bookmarks or pop them on your refrigerator. I know that Todd Tanner and Chris Brandstetter fans might even frame them. This is my gift to you: a 鈥渏oy snack,鈥� a simple act that can make a big impact!

A big thank you to David Wilcox and Joanne O鈥機onnor 鈥� keep up the good work! Continue to read 新加坡多多开奖记录 and pick up a pen and write a postcard. Send it off with a smile.

Cheers to Auburn!

In his first public comments nearly three months after a hit-and-run crash in Owasco, Cayuga County Clerk Brian Scanlan took responsibility for the incident and admitted he erred when he left the scene after striking a parked vehicle.聽

"We're all human. We all make mistakes," Scanlan told 新加坡多多开奖记录 in an interview Thursday. "I made a mistake. As a newly elected official, I was scared, I was nervous, so I made the choice that I made and I have to live with that."聽

The incident occurred Nov. 11, four days after Scanlan won a three-way race for county clerk. He was operating a pickup truck when hit a vehicle parked outside 12 Fairway Drive. The vehicle, a Subaru owned by Dr. Cyndy King, of North Carolina, was totaled.聽

Scanlan left the scene of the crash. The next day, his attorney contacted the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office 鈥� a fact confirmed by Sheriff Brian Schenck.

When Scanlan and his attorney appeared at the sheriff's office on Nov. 15, he was聽ticketed for leaving the scene of an accident, a violation.

厂肠补苍濒补苍听pleaded guilty by mail and was sentenced Dec. 1 to pay a $250 fine with a $93 surcharge. He was also required to complete a defensive driving course and 50 hours of community service, and cover King's expenses not covered by insurance.聽

There were attempts by local attorney Joe Camardo, who owns 12 Fairway Drive, to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case. But Cayuga County District Attorney Brittany Grome Antonacci said there was no basis to appoint a special prosecutor.聽

Camardo has said he will pursue civil action against Scanlan, and has hired a private investigator.聽

Scanlan is aware of Camardo's comments and other criticisms from the public. He has seen claims made about what may have happened before the crash, which he said are "unjustifiable."聽

"Nothing is going to knock me down. I may fall down, but I will get right back up," he said. "I made a mistake, like I said. I took responsibility for that."聽

While transitioning into his new role as county clerk, Scanlan began his community service. He is nearing completion of the 50-hour requirement.聽

"I'm looking forward to moving on and going forward," he said. "I wish others could do the same."

Brian Scanlan embraces challenge, settles in as Cayuga County clerk

With his first month on the job behind him, Brian Scanlan has settled in as Cayuga County clerk.聽