CCA is among 30 recipients of federal funding to expand addiction telehealth services across New York State. The awards, administered by the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, allow for the purchase and installation of equipment to deliver critical addiction services for individuals and families amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In open letters to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, CCA and other civil and human rights groups call for the creation and maintenance of a publicly accessible online database of correctional officer misconduct and disciplinary records.
Important legislation has been introduced to ensure that contact tracing achieves its public health goals and is not weaponized against communities of color.
Contact tracing asks us to provide public health officials with the most intimate details about our lives. Participation means that a person must share their location information, associations, and health information. If there is any risk that this information can be used by law enforcement or ICE, many New Yorkers will refuse to cooperate with contact tracers. Without an ironclad privacy guarantee, New York will undermine one of our most important tools in combating COVID-19.
By funneling millions of dollars into local and state elections, law enforcement unions and associations secure undemocratic influence over the decisions of elected officials and block desperately needed reform to New York’s racist, cruel, and discriminatory “justice” system.
CCA and other organizations committed to ending racist state violence call on the leaders of the New York State Assembly and Senate to reconvene the legislature in July and pass a slate of bills to peel away at the devastation wrought on Black New Yorkers by a system of mass criminalization and state violence.
The bill explicitly prohibits law enforcement and immigration enforcement agencies and personnel from serving as contact tracers and ensures that contract tracing information stays truly confidential by making it immune from legal process and inadmissible in judicial and administrative actions and proceedings.
Important legislation has been introduced to ensure that contact tracing achieves its public health goals and is not weaponized against communities of color.
This year's New York State Budget included rollbacks to the bail and discovery reform laws that took effect only three months prior. Pushed for by Governor Cuomo and the Senate Majority, these rollbacks represent a capitulation to racist fear-mongering and a coordinated campaign of opposition led by prosecutors and police across the state.
Advocates and legislators rallied today against secret budget negotiations in Albany that threaten to gut New York’s bail reform law and deepen mass incarceration.
