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LAS Supports Governor Cuomo’s Call to Repeal Police Secrecy Law 50-A

Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced at a press breifing that he would sign legislation to repeal Police Secrecy Law 50-A should the bill pass the Legislature, according to the New York Daily News.

This outmoded law has long been used by the New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to thwart police accountability and transparency statewide.

“Now, more than ever, with police violence raging unchecked in cities across the country, New York must live up to its progressive ideals by ending police secrecy. Everyone must be disturbed by the videos that surfaced on social media of the NYPD using pepper spray and violently assaulting New Yorkers in Brooklyn last night,” said The Legal Aid Society in a statement.