Since taking office last July, enforcement counsel Michael Johnson has not taken action against any campaigns that failed to file required campaign finance reports.
Circumventing a law designed to close the so-called LLC loophole, donors to campaigns across the state are using multiple companies to give far over the $5,000 cap.
Incarcerated survivors face a broken system for reporting abuse, frequent retaliation, and little accountability for staff perpetrators.
Cuomo vetoed a bill to expand oversight of the prison medical system. Will Hochul take a different tack?
Budget negotiations center on one crucial question: should New York save or spend?
New York state legislators have just days to question phone hacking, forensics, and fusion centers before the budget passes.
Green groups charged that Kathy Hochul is punting the issue until after the primary.
Officials routinely refuse to send requests for medical release to the state parole board, frustrating advocates and raising questions about the murky criteria for medical release.
The state’s grand plan to convert unused hotels into affordable housing hasn’t gotten off the ground. Lawmakers just boosted funding — but developers and housing advocates say that won’t help without lifting onerous zoning restrictions.
At the urging of the correction officers union, the prison agency is restricting packages to private vendors that charge steep markups and have limited selections.
Recent transmission projects could enable building owners to get out of upgrading their buildings for a decade, if Adams doesn’t intervene.
A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.
Governor Hochul’s pick to replace the resigning Court of Appeals Chief Judge could break up the conservative bloc that controls the court—or entrench it.
The court’s last term included a slew of cases rolling back defendants’ rights. Progressives hope to reset that trajectory.
A plan to move a family medicine clinic in a low-income Bronx neighborhood has sparked backlash from patients and staff.
Lawmakers banned solitary confinement for people with disabilities. But the state prison agency has crafted its own policies.
A little-known federal initiative, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, supports services that wouldn’t otherwise get reimbursed.
A landmark solitary confinement reform law created a new, “rehabilitative” type of isolation unit. In practice, they’re often little different from the solitary units they were meant to replace.
New York suburbs have long lagged their peers in building new housing. A few towns are eyeing a different approach.
Staten Island residents who sold their homes to the state as part of one of the country’s first major “managed retreats” were promised the land would be returned to nature. Instead, part of it is being turned into a soccer complex.