NYCLU Sues to Overturn Landmark Sex Offender Law
Advocates charge that New York’s restrictions for sex offense registrants are “vague, expansive, and unnecessary.” On Tuesday, they filed a federal lawsuit to strike them down.
This story was published in partnership with The Nation.
This story was published in partnership with The Nation.
“I’m so extra cautious, paranoid of going back to prison for this nonsense.”
“Individuals subject to SARA have no idea where they can walk, commute, or live without fear of reincarceration.”
“Every time I walk into the shelter, it’s like walking back into the prison.”
The governor promised to fill the chronically understaffed Board of Parole. Nearly half of her nominations have ended in disaster.
Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year.
More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.
A newly discovered 80-page housing package would have included good cause eviction, but legislators were dissuaded by Kathy Hochul’s opposition.
For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.