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Longtime New Yorker Files Civil Rights Lawsuit over Injuries Resulting from Inadequate Healthcare in ICE Detention
January 23, 2020 — Longtime New Yorker Geurys Sosa, originally from the Dominican Republic, has filed a lawsuit against Hudson County and those responsible for his medical care while he was confined to immigration detention at Hudson County Correctional Center. As a...
The City reports: ACCESS-A-RIDE USERS FACE ACCESS CHALLENGES AT ACCESS-A-RIDE CENTERS
The CITY published a report on widespread accessibility problems in applying for Access-A-Ride, New York City's paratransit service for people with disabilities. Among other issues, none of the six required assessment locations across the city has automatic doors. ...
NY Daily News: NYC kids’ sports access disparities persist, new Education Dept. data shows
New Department of Education data shows that racial disparities in access to high school sports persist, the New York Daily News reported. The data released was mandated by a NYLPI-backed bill passed last year. The median number of teams available to a black or...
NYLPI challenges Fair Fares program for discriminating against people with disabilities
An article in the Queens Daily Eagle covered NYLPI's challenge to the City's new reduced-fare transit program, Fair Fares, quoting NYLPI Senior Staff Attorney Christopher Schuyler: But the program will leave out Access-A-Ride users, according to NYLPI. The attorneys...
City reduces waste capacity after NYLPI-backed legislation and lawsuit to clean up transfer station
Empowered by a waste equity law (Local Law 152 of 2018) passed in 2018 with the support of NYLPI's coalition, the NYC Department of Sanitation has reduced the permitted waste capacity for three transfer stations in Brooklyn. In 2017, NYLPI sued one of these stations...
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