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LAS Condemns City Hall for Failing to Involve Local Communities in Police Reform

"Efforts by community organizers and stakeholders to build trust and revive the process have been ignored," The Legal Aid Society's Corey Stoughton tells the New York Daily News.

LAS Calls on Cuomo to Enact Comprehensive Marijuana Legalization

The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act would create a responsible and well-regulated industry and support communities that have been most harmed by prohibition, according to the Staten Island Advance.

LAS Slams Ongoing Problems with State’s COVID-19 Rent Relief Program

Housing rights advocates fear federal dollars may go unspent due to stringent rules for applicants, reports Gothamist.

Listen: LAS Alleges ICE Hunger Strikers Being Punished for Protest

Immigrants held by ICE in New Jersey jails are facing retaliation, according to WNYC News.

LAS Joins Public Advocate’s Call for Racial Impact Study on Rezonings

The City’s rezoning plans have been one of the greatest sources of displacement of low-income tenants of color from neighborhoods for decades, as reported by Black Star News.

LAS in the News 01.08.21

We have an intrinsic connection to the daily lives of New Yorkers. Here are a few of the places we made a difference, provided context or added valuable perspective this week.

As Death Toll, Infection Rates Mount in NYS Prisons, LAS Calls for Immediate Releases

The Legal Aid Society called on the Governor and DOCCS to release New Yorkers who are vulnerable to COVID-19 as nine incarcerated people have died in a three-week span, according to WNYC/Gothamist..

LAS Sues to Protect Incarcerated New Yorkers at Upstate Correctional Facility

Filed together with Relman Colfax, the landmark federal action seeks to secure critical protections from COVID-19 for elderly and medically vulnerable individuals, as reported by The Intercept.

LAS Warns Over Risky COVID-19 Screening Policy in City Jails

The current testing policy allows unacceptable transmission risks for prisoners and staff alike, reports WNYC/Gothamist.

Watch: NYPD Officer Employs Knee-on-Neck Hold During Violent Arrest

Disturbing new video shows the same technique used in the killing of George Floyd being applied to a client of The Legal Aid Society, as reported by the Queens Daily Eagle.