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Gotham Gazette Op Ed: New York Must Replace Police as Responders to People in Mental Health Crisis
NYLPI Senior Staff Attorney Marinda van Dalen, along with CCIT-NYC member Christina Sparrock and New York State Senator Kevin Parker, explain in the Gotham Gazette the urgent need for an alternative model to police response for individuals experiencing a mental health...
City Bar Report of Systemic Racism in NYC Courts Cites NYLPI’s “Accessible Justice” Report and Advocacy
In June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s death and as part of the New York State Court’s Excellence Initiative, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced an independent review of institutional racism within the New York State Court System, and appointed Secretary Jeh...
NYLPI Joins Education Advocacy Groups Urging NYC Mayor To Include Students Experiencing Homelessness
Advocacy groups urge Mayor Bill de Blasio to develop a coordinated interagency plan to address the barriers that students who are homeless are facing as the school year begins. We demand that New York City must designate a point person to lead this effort and ensure...
NYLPI and Coalition Partners Urge Tri-State Congressional Delegates to Redouble Efforts to Secure Public Transit Funding
The Emergency Campaign to Save Public Transit, a coalition formed by NYLPI and various tri-state region transit groups, recently sent letters to members of the Congressional Delegations for the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut requesting redoubling of...
NYLPI AND PARTNERS LAUNCH COMMUNITY SURVEYING INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS THE ONGOING POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
Over the last five years, 15 New Yorkers experiencing a mental health crisis were killed by the police, one person died by a self-inflicted gunshot during a police engagement, and another three were shot by police and left critically wounded. The scores of people...
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