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Birmingham picked as pilot site for police initiative

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2015 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks to law enforcement officers and guests in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington. The share of federal drug offenders who received harsh mandatory minimum sentences has plunged in the past year, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press that Holder plans to cite Tuesday in arguing for the success of his criminal justice policies. Experts credit Holder for helping raise sentencing policy as a public issue, but they also say it's hard to gauge how much of the impact is directly attributable to his actions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | Federal officials are planning to announce Birmingham as one of six pilot sites for a national initiative on restoring relationships between law enforcement and citizens.

The United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama says Attorney General Eric Holder will announce the sites on Thursday for the department's National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Holder is also expected to hold a discussion with students and police officers before announcing the sites for the pilot program at 2 p.m.

The initiative was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings involving unarmed blacks and Latino men.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | Federal officials are planning to announce Birmingham as one of six pilot sites for a national initiative on restoring relationships between law enforcement and citizens.

The United States Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama says Attorney General Eric Holder will announce the sites on Thursday for the department's National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Holder is also expected to hold a discussion with students and police officers before announcing the sites for the pilot program at 2 p.m.

The initiative was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings involving unarmed blacks and Latino men.

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10-72404, 13-73367 Kawaldeep Sethi v. Eric Holder, Jr. – Video


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Holder used multiple email aliases as attorney general, DOJ officials reveal

March 4, 2015: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington.(AP)

Attorney General Eric Holder has used three different email aliases during his six years in the top job at the Justice Department, officials say.

At a time when Hillary Clinton is facing criticism for exclusively using personal email while secretary of state, DOJ officials confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that Holder had his own email quirks. While the attorney general, they say, did business on the government system, he did so under multiple names and is now on his third email address.

Officials cast Holder's email aliases as a way to avoid spam and guard against security risks -- though the use of aliases by other top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has raised transparency concerns in the past.

The first email alias Holder used was Henry Yearwood, a combination of the first name of an uncle and his mother's maiden name.

At some point, he changed it to David Kendricks, which was an homage to the names of two members of the 60's Motown R&B band The Temptations, Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon would not disclose Holder's third and current email alias, saying it had something to do with the name of an athlete -- but "I can't tell you that because then we'd have to change it again and we'd rather not do that with only a week or so to go," before Holder is expected to step down from his post. (The Senate is planning a vote in the coming days on confirming the nominee to replace him, Loretta Lynch.)

Senior DOJ officials, however, stress that -- unlike Clinton -- Holder has never used a private email address to do any work as the attorney general.

They say all of Holder's email addresses which he's done official business on, including the one he is presently using, are government email accounts on the @usdoj.gov domain.

"The attorney general uses a Justice Department email address to conduct official business. As with many Cabinet officials, he does not use his given name in the handle of his email address," Fallon said.

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Eric Holder: ‘Brown’s Death Did Not Involve Prosecutable Conduct’ – Video


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The cover up of Michael Brown Shooting. Eric Holder fixes evidence – Video


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