Adrienne Harris was approved to lead New York’s Department of Financial Services by a wide margin, as a progressive push to block her nomination sputtered.
The law leaves key decisions to an agency with a history of dragging its feet on implementing water quality legislation.
The city’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development continues to work with construction companies that have been found liable for wage theft.
“By April 1, it will be out or modified. It will not be this program,” one legislator predicted.
Governor Kathy Hochul says she will finally fill vacancies on the state’s parole board, opening the potential to shift from presumptive detention.
A 2019 reform following corruption scandals was supposed to cap political donations and unveil the people behind companies giving cash. Records show it hasn’t.
The state health department has delayed implementing a landmark staffing law, as nurses say they’re overwhelmed and hospitals point to a workforce shortage.
In the first year of the pandemic, four out of five appointments at state-licensed clinics were held virtually—allowing providers to tackle long-standing barriers.
Banned for a century, contract labor could return to New York’s prisons.
Since taking office last July, enforcement counsel Michael Johnson has not taken action against any campaigns that failed to file required campaign finance reports.
Incarcerated survivors face a broken system for reporting abuse, frequent retaliation, and little accountability for staff perpetrators.
New York’s prison agency is interpreting key provisions of a landmark parole reform law to keep more people locked up. A lead sponsor of the legislation calls it “appalling.”
The move comes after New York Focus reported on widespread violations of campaign finance law and the Board’s lack of enforcement.
The power industry is pushing a pair of little-noticed proposals that could shift the course of the state’s climate action.
Advocates organizing for similar laws say loopholes in Hochul’s proposal make it “virtually meaningless,” and are encouraging the governor to withdraw the measure.
The governor’s projected price tag is five times higher than estimates by the legislature and outside researchers—but she hasn’t said how she arrived at her figure.
Experts say the state needs to spend at least $1 billion a year to cut pollution from buildings. Legislators are trying to get the governor closer to that figure.
Democrats immediately said they would appeal the decision.
The legislature wants to spend $250 million to combat homelessness. Hochul says it’ll actually cost $6 billion.
The final budget made changes to bail law, discovery law, pre-arraignment detention, involuntary commitment and more.