Vincent DeMarco

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• Huntington offers free drug-testing kits

  initiative at a news conference at Town Hall Wednesday. "This makes for a safer and better town."He was joined by Sheriff Vincent DeMarco , town board members Susan Berland and Mark Mayoka and members of the town's Youth Bureau, the Northport - East Northport   Read more »

• Suffolk inmates check into state-of-the-art facility

  who will dispatch help at a moment's notice.Still, Dagnello is not so sure help will always arrive in time.Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco said the $185 million facility, which has still more construction phases to go, is clean, secure and efficient, and that   Read more »

• Suffolk sheriff Vincent DeMarco calls plan to add more jail space misguided

  jail costing $185 million, and is facing the prospect of having to spend another $100 million to build more jail space.Sheriff Vincent DeMarco says it's all unnecessary."We don't need more jail cells in Suffolk County," DeMarco wrote to top county officials   Read more »

Around the web

• Ad to begin airing praising gun-control bill

  DeMarco, the president of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence, says a fingerprint licensing component in the law is one of the most effective solutions available to reduce gun violence. The provision is designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who   from Daily Record Read more »

• Ads to tout new gun control law

  who voted for it, and we want people to know those legislators were doing the right thing to save lives in Maryland," said Vincent DeMarco, president of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence. He declined to say how much the group is spending on the ads, which   from Baltimore Sun Read more »

• Two crucial days: supporting universal background checks

  DeMarco, national coordinator of Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence spoke at the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops Meeting in March. He sent this email to member organizations this morning: The next 48 hours are critical for gun violence prevention, as   from Episcopal Cafe Read more »

• Faith groups seizing moment to fight gun violence

  fall 2010, activist Vincent DeMarco, working under the auspices of the Brady Campaign, began to pull together a broad faith-based coalition. The project, modeled on DeMarco’s successful antitobacco work, eventually became Faiths United. Years of partnerships   from Episcopal Cafe Read more »

• 'Big Daddy' Aims to Inspire Incarcerated Youth

  were told that they had the power to turn their lives around. Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco continued his efforts Friday to provide new paths for incarcerated young people. Richard Salgado, also known as “Big Daddy” in the Suffolk County Correctional   from Riverhead Patch Read more »