New Rochelle CCRB Updates

There have been significant updates to our CCRB reporting which are described below. All 14 sections of the report and some articles have been updated as well. To see the most current version of the report see the Table of Contents below.

Here are a few highlights:

The Harper Arrest — Body Cam Video and the Officers Beyond Kane

Body-worn camera footage provided to Ivin Harper by the Westchester County DA during discovery in People v. Ivin Harper (CR-2943-24) shows Lieutenant Sean Kane placing drugs under the wheel well of a car. Police Officer Maria Vasquez — who wrote the false report stating Kane observed Harper toss the drugs — was promoted to Detective on October 16, 2025, while Kane was under active suspension. Police Officer Stephen Correale, also present at the arrest, was promoted to Sergeant the same day. No public disciplinary action against either officer has been announced. Talk of the Sound has submitted a FOIL request for all Internal Affairs findings in the Harper matter beyond Kane.

Harper’s civil attorney David Fisher of Fisher & Byrialsen stated: “The board was created as an optics response to George Floyd and Kamal Flowers — not as a genuine effort at civilian oversight. It has never held a single meeting, and the Kane matter was investigated and decided entirely without civilian input.”

The Brady List — A Four-Year Promise That Never Existed

The Westchester County DA’s office has confirmed to Talk of the Sound that no Brady/adverse credibility list exists and that Westchester has never maintained one. Former DA Miriam Rocah spent four years promising to release it. The DA’s office also acknowledged that compiling officer disciplinary records after the 50-a repeal “was not automatic” and “was a bit of a process” — meaning there was a gap between when the law required disclosure and when the DA actually had the records. When Kane’s, McKenna’s, and Vaccaro’s incidents were added to the DA’s 1K files is being researched. Talk of the Sound has contacted Rocah directly and submitted questions to OCA on the Brady/Giglio boilerplate court order.

The Rocah v. Costa Appeal — Still Pending

The appeal of the January 2023 ruling allowing Westchester prosecutors to produce officer disciplinary records late without sanctions is pending at the Appellate Division Second Department — Docket No. 2023-02319, last argued November 20, 2025. A decision has not yet been issued. If reversed, the Brady/Giglio landscape in Westchester changes significantly. Talk of the Sound is monitoring for the decision, which is handed down on Wednesdays.

NACOLE — Named in the Code Despite Not Fitting the Requirement

Talk of the Sound has learned that NACOLE’s inclusion in the CCRB legislation was advocated for by a CPPB member who had a prior relationship with the organization. That same individual was subsequently appointed to the CCRB. NACOLE is a conference-based organization that does not deliver bespoke training to individual oversight boards — a structural mismatch the city knew about in January 2025 and did nothing to address for 365 days. The gap was eventually filled by Monroe University — found through a meeting on January 23, 2026 whose origins the available records do not fully explain. CGR’s public client list includes both the City of New Rochelle and Monroe University.

Published Stories — May 2026

At some point all updates will be incorporated into a Version 2.0 of the report.

A series of free articles based on this CCRB report have been published on Talk of the Sound at New Rochelle.