The legislation comes after months of haggling over how best to protect New Yorkers from President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Footage published by New York Focus sparked a debate over deputies’ practice of calling Border Patrol on Spanish-speaking drivers.
Hakeem Jeffries urged Albany to avoid maps that aggressively boosted Democrats, sources told New York Focus.
Shelter providers have had to lay off staff, while the children’s already uncertain futures have become even murkier.
The governor has yet to nominate heads of the State Commission of Correction, which now lacks a quorum.
Also: Michael Bloomberg gives $1.5 million to a pro-charter school group.
The prison system often postpones or rejects incarcerated people’s requests to be closer to their children, jeopardizing family ties.
New York City’s $125 billion executive budget hinges on taxes and cuts whose details are still being worked out in Albany.
The Hochul administration now has a chance to relax New York’s child care staffing ratios — among the country’s strictest — after 26 years. But will it?
Michel Blot was reassigned from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to Sing Sing after prisoners and advocates raised concerns.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s Democratic primary opponents say they’d refuse law firm donations if elected.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s announcement that a deal had been reached led to a flurry of recriminations from lawmakers.
Two years after Gov. Hochul unveiled her signature literacy policy, advocates say the findings underscore an urgent need for sweeping literacy reform.
Oswego County sheriff’s deputies held drivers for up to 45 minutes as they waited for immigration agents, potentially breaking the law.
State Senator James Skoufis represents a redder district than almost any other Democrat in Albany.
The East Ramapo school board has been overseen by state monitors for years after it slashed millions in public school funds to bankroll private religious education.
Hochul’s counter would limit informal collusion with ICE only in civil matters.
Also: A super PAC targets Democratic Socialists.
Cheikh Fall has spent nearly two decades helping New York immigrants from his home region seek asylum in the United States.
New rules could result in thousands of New Yorkers losing their food benefits this summer.