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After months of conflict involving alleged intimidation and potentially illegal firings, workers at Queens Defenders voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
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Flaws in an updated website make it extremely difficult to track who is funding campaigns, journalists and watchdogs say, but the BOE insists that “the site is fully functioning.”
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“People in prison deserve healthcare, and this is healthcare.” Legislators push to offer treatment for drug addiction in jails and prisons
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In a striking sign of activists’ success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex work.
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Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.
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Three candidates in the June election say they would not join the association of state DAs, which has fought measures such as bail reform.
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Amid dramatic spikes in drug overdoses and HIV cases, legislators and public health professionals push for New York to decriminalize sterile syringes.
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A leading candidate for Manhattan DA has raked in two thirds of her campaign funds from five-figure donations—many from financial industries she would be in charge of prosecuting.
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A wave of legal aid attorneys are joining the labor movement. But bosses say it’s bad for business and the unions just want to collect their dues.
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The office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor is on the chopping block in Manhattan’s 2021 DA race.
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Most of the state Supreme Court candidates who won in November had donated to the parties and party bosses that nominated them, a New York Focus investigation found.
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NYC-DSA built an electoral powerhouse with no paid staff and just a few years of experience. Here’s how they pulled it off.