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City Council To Vote On Legislation To Get Homeless New Yorkers Out of Shelters And Into Permanent Housing
Photos: YouTube\Twitter The New York City Council will vote on legislation this week to require the City to pay higher rates in its rental ...
Legal Aid Wins Reversal for Brooklyn Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
Photo: Legal Aid Society (NEW YORK, NY) – The Legal Aid Society celebrated a decision rendered by the New York State Appellate Division, Second ...
Officials Must Address Deadly COVID Conditions That Persist in Jails and Prisons
Photos: YouTube Today, The City newspaper reported on an unreleased Board of Correction (BOC) investigation into three deaths that occurred in Department of Correction ...
Prison Advocates File Lawsuit Against Cuomo’s PrisonJail Vaccination Plan
Photo: YouTube Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, The Bronx Defenders, The Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Brooklyn Defender Services ...
NYCLU, Legal Aid Society Applaud AG James’ Lawsuit Against NYPD
Photos: YouTube The Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union released the following statement responding to the lawsuit filed by New ...
Tyrese Haspil Lawyers to NYPD: “Stop Parading So Called Facts”
[Tyrese Haspil\Fahim Saleh] Legal Aid Society: “The statements attributed to ‘unnamed’ NYPD sources are emblematic of a culture within the police department to rush ...
NY Court Rules Against Investigation into NYPD Abuses, Discrimination
[NYPD\United States District Court] Corey Stoughton: “This ruling is a missed opportunity to bring much-needed accountability for the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing rules ...
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS GROUPS TO SUPREME COURT: HALT “PUBLIC CHARGE” RULE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
[Immigration\”Public Charge Rule”] Make The Road Litigation team: “As long as the Public Charge Rule remains in effect, immigrants and their families, including those ...
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER UNVEILS PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS CRISIS
[Homelessness\Affordable Housing] Catherine Trapani, Executive Director, Homeless Services United, Inc: “Homelessness is a complex multifaceted problem that can only be solved with a comprehensive ...
TRANSPORTATION ADVOCATES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS TO MTA AND GOVERNOR CUOMO: WE NEED BETTER SERVICE—NOT MORE POLICE
[Transportation News\MTA Policing] State Senator Alessandra Biaggi: “Instead of spending $249 million on a new police force, the MTA should increase bus and train ...
