[Absentee Ballots]
Williams: “This is far from the first time that the Board of Elections has failed to meet its mandate of facilitating a smooth, stable, secure election.”
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New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams
Public Advocate Calls Absentee Ballot Discrepancies “Systemic Incompetence”
Public Advocate Calls on Politicians to Redefine Public Safety, Policing
[Redefining Public Safety & Policing]
Williams: “Simple reforms or discussions around policing is not the answer…While policing has an important role and improving it is imperative, the prevention of violence for example – a primary focus – can only be done through an all-encompassing approach…”
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Public Advocate Calls for Public Safety Reforms as Gun Violence Rises
[Public Advocate Williams\Gun Violence]
Williams: “Anecdotal evidence has suggested a work slowdown for several weeks now. The rumored slowdown implemented by some officers in retaliation for reforms, including those signed as recently as two days ago, is simply irresponsible.”
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Public Advocate Williams Urges Passage Of Real Property Tax Relief Bill
[New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams]
Williams: “The Coronavirus has hindered the ability of New Yorkers to meet their tax obligations over the past three months…The City must act in ways to ease this burden while balancing the budget.”
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Public Advocate Williams Backs “Right To Record Police” Bill
[Int. 721-A\Right to Record Act]
Williams: “The right to record can allow a level of accountability in incidents with officers acting inappropriately. Ramsey Orta, for example, filmed the last words of Eric Garner in Staten Island after ex-officio Daniel Pantaleo applied a fatal chokehold.”
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE PROPOSES MANDATORY LOCKDOWN TO STOP COVID-19 SPREAD
[COVID-19 Pandemic\Mandatory Lockdown]
Williams: “That lockdown status, which I urge our city and state executives to adopt immediately as essential guidance and directives, should be re-evaluated on a biweekly basis to determine its effectiveness and duration.”
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ENTERTAINER OBBA BABATUNDÉ RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING
[Entertainment News\ Movies\Music]
Obba Babatundé, the multi-talented and highly celebrated, award-winning entertainer is a Broadway, film and television star, whose career spans more than four decades grew up in the diverse community of Queens. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a daytime Emmy for his role in CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, was nominated for a Tony for his role in the original Broadway cast of Dreamgirls, is a Critic’s Circle Awards-winner for the musical Sammy, and the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for A Soldier’s Play.
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NEW YORK STATE SENATOR PARKER INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ALLOW VOTING RIGHTS TO INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS
[Mass Incarceration\Voting Rights]
NY State Senator Kevin Parker: “When Senate Democrats were in the majority in 2010 we enacted fair, common-sense laws to have people in prison counted at their home addresses when redrawing state and local district lines. Today, my legislation builds upon this and the promise of equal protection and our democracy’s linchpin of one-person one-vote…As a professor of African-American Studies, I know all too well the horrid evolution of Black people in America: from the Transatlantic journey to the sharecropper; from the Black Codes to the mass incarceration and hyper-policing of communities of color.
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