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Current Press Releases and Statements:
November
11/01/24 LAS Files Lawsuit on Indiscriminate Use of Handcuffs During Arraignments
October
10/29/24 LAS Statement on Legislation Decriminalizing Jaywalking Becoming Law 10/25/24 LAS Statement on Evolv Employees’ Misconduct During Business Deals 10/24/24 LAS Statement on Report on Impact of Raise the Age and Bail Reform 10/24/24 Youth, Advocates, More Gather in Support of Critical Legislation 10/24/24 LAS Statement on Mayor Adams’ Failed Subway Gun Detection System Pilot 10/22/24 Vote In NYC Jails Coalition Demands Polling Sites in Jails 10/22/24 Advisory: Youth, Parents, Advocates to Gather in Support of Critical Legislation 10/22/24 LAS Honors Key Partners at 2024 Pro Bono Publico Awards Ceremony 10/22/24 LAS Files Amicus Brief to Defend Against Mistaken Eyewitness Identifications 10/21/24 Advisory: Vote In NYC Jails Coalition to Hold Rally 10/21/24 LAS Statement Ahead of the City Council’s City of Yes Oversight Hearing 10/09/24 LAS Calls for Sweeping Reforms Ahead of Hearing on NY’s Central Register of Child Abuse 10/08/24 New Lawsuit Seeks to Help Students with School Avoidance Return to Class 10/08/24 LAS Statement on DOC Forcing New Yorkers into Makeshift Solitary Confinement 10/07/24 LAS Condemns NYPD for Chronic Underreporting of Civilian Police Stops 10/04/24 LAS Statement on Probe Into Subway Gun Detection System Contracting Process 10/01/24 LAS Files Appeal to Force Full Implement CityFHEPS Reform and Expansion Laws
September
09/30/24 Advisory: Announcement on Litigation to Implement CityFHEPS Reform Laws 09/27/24 Advisory: LAS To Host its Inaugural East Harlem Law Day 09/27/24 LAS Calls on the NYCC to Pass Bills to Strengthen Protections for TGNCNBI Individuals 09/26/24 LAS Statement on the NYC City Council Passing Legislation to Decriminalize Jaywalking 09/24/24 Civil Rights Organizations Response to Latest Report on NYPD’s Discipline Process 09/24/24 Dalourny Nemorin of LAS Announced as 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Leader 09/23/24 Advisory: Counsel for Plaintiffs to Argue Contempt Motion Against NYC DOC 09/21/24 LAS Statement on Footage of Sunday’s Mass Shooting in Brownsville 09/20/24 Coalition for the Homeless, LAS Unveil Housing Is The Solution Citywide Ad Campaign 09/16/24 LAS Named as Finalist in Robin Hood’s AI Poverty Challenge 09/16/24 LAS Statement on New, Watered-Down NYPD Disciplinary Matrix 09/12/24 LAS Files Lawsuit Against Solar Panel Companies for Deceptive, Predatory Practices 09/10/24 LAS Launches ‘Do NYC Justice’ Campaign 09/05/24 Civil Rights Organizations Condemn NYPD’s Violations of Court-Ordered Reforms
August
08/22/24 LAS Files Lawsuit Against NYPD for Illegally Using Juvenile Records 08/21/24 LAS Statement on Whether New Homes Could be Built on City-Owned Property 08/16/24 LAS Statement Ahead on City’s Planned Encampment Sweep of Randall’s Island 08/14/24 LAS Condemns Recent Calls from Mayor to Rollback NYC’s Sanctuary, Detainer Laws 08/13/24 NCLEJ, LAS Deliver Oral Arguments on Behalf of 24-Hour Homecare Workers 08/12/24 Advisory: NCLEJ, LAS to Deliver Arguments on Behalf of 24-Hour Homecare Workers 08/12/24 Payouts on Settlements Alleging NYPD Misconduct Already Total Over $82 Million 08/08/24 LAS Files Motion to Hold DOC in Contempt for Blocking Access to Medical Care 08/08/24 LAS Statement on DA Vacating 46 Convictions Involving Discredited NYPD Officer 08/06/24 LAS Statement on NYPD’s Latest Unhinged Attack on a Local Journalist 08/02/24 LAS Condemn Mayor’s Temporary Displacement, Search and Seizure of New Arrivals
July
07/29/24 LAS Statement on Mayor Suspending Parts of the New Solitary Confinement Law 07/26/24 LAS, NYCLU Preparing Litigation to Challenge Subway Surveillance Program 07/26/24 LAS, NYCLU Threaten Adams, MTA With Subway ScannerLawsuit 07/24/24 LAS: Adams Administration Continues to Violate the POST Act 07/24/24 LAS Statement on Two Probes into the Death of Charizma Jones 07/23/24 LAS Demands an Immediate Investigation Into the Death of Charizma Jones 07/22/24 LAS Statement in Response to the Resignation Arva Rice 07/18/24 LAS Files Amicus Brief on Police Use of Expired Warrants 07/17/24 LAS Statement on Gun Detection in Select NYC Subway Stations 07/17/24 Bronx Tenants Gather to Demand Immediate Repairs to Deplorable Conditions 07/16/24 LAS Statement on the Passing of Charizma Jones 07/16/24 Advisory: Bronx Tenants Demand Immediate Repairs to Deplorable Conditions 07/16/24 LAS Statement on President’s Proposal to Cap Annual Rent Increases 07/15/24 LAS Fights to Save Three Low-Income New Yorkers From Eviction 07/09/24 Statement from Counsel for Plaintiffs in Nunez v. City of New York 07/08/24 Latest Report Reveals NYC DOC’s Gross Non-Compliance on Rikers 07/02/24 LAS Statement on Legislation to Increase Protections for Tenants Facing Eviction
June
06/28/24 LAS Statement on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians 06/28/24 LAS Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision on Homeless Residents 06/26/24 LAS Continues Mobile Justice Bus Tour in Brooklyn 06/25/24 Advocates Hold Election Day Rally to Demand Polling Site on Rikers Island 06/24/24 Advisory: Rally in Support of Incarcerated New Yorkers’ Access to the Polls 06/18/24 LAS Statement on Biden’s New Protections for Undocumented Spouses 06/17/24 LAS Statement on NYC Rent Guidelines Board’s Vote to Increase Rents 06/17/24 NYIFUP Statement on ICE Severely Restricting Phone Access 06/17/24 LAS Secure $275,000 for Transgender Man Who Suffered Abuses While in Custody 06/17/24 LAS Calls for a Rent Freeze for All Tenants Living in Rent Stabilized Units 06/10/24 NYC Public Defender: Extend Special Pre-Sentencing Arrangements to All New Yorkers 06/07/24 LAS Lauds NY State Legislature for Passing Jury of Our Peers Act 06/07/24 LAS Lauds Passage of Legislation to Reform Commission on Forensic Science 06/06/24 LAS Lauds NYS Senate Passage of No Slavery in New York Act 06/04/24 LAS Continues Mobile Justice Bus Tour to Meet New Yorkers in their Communities 06/04/24 LAS Statement on President’s Action Severely Limiting the Ability to Seek Asylum 06/03/24 LAS and Cornell Law School Win Appellate Court Victory in Keisy G.M v. Decker 06/03/24 13th Forward Coalition Releases Letters from Incarcerated New Yorkers 06/03/24 LAS, ALAA Call on Assembly to Pass Legislation to Increase Student Loan Assistance
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