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Palumbo will take office as a member of the Assembly on Jan. 1. Working with the State Senate, the Assembly can propose and pass laws that regulate local police departments throughout the state. It could create state oversight of police officers, which currently does not exist, or make internal police investigations public in New York.
The New Suffolk resident graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., where he majored in government and received a law degree from St. John's Law School in 1998. He worked for six years as assistant Suffolk district attorney, where he became trial supervisor for five East End towns. He is now in private practice in Mattituck.
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