Criminal Justice

Manhattan DA Seeks ‘Red Flag’ Gun Ban for Comptroller Employee

Dec. 13, 2022, 9:14 p.m.March 14, 2024, 2:23 p.m.

Prosecutors cited alleged threats to Comptroller Brad Lander’s staff, in rare city use of state law that allows authorities to remove firearms from people considered potential risks for violence

NYPD

Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers

Dec. 13, 2022, 2:50 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:04 a.m.

The allegations had previously been dismissed by the NYPD and the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office despite explosive video footage from two separate car stops in Staten Island in 2018.

Criminal Justice

For ‘Clemency Season,’ Prisoner Advocates Want Hochul to Keep Promise All Year

Dec. 13, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 12, 2022, 8:32 p.m.

Last December, the governor said she would change the way pardons and clemency applications were handled. But little has changed since.

Yusef Salaam, one of the five men wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case, speaks at City Hall in of a bill to provide counsel to young people being interrogated by police, Oct. 29, 2019.

Juvenile Justice

Lawyers, Advocates Prod Albany for More Legal Protections for Kids Under Arrest

Dec. 7, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 7, 2022, 11:10 a.m.

A broad coalition of groups plan to rally Dec. 15 for a proposed bill that would prevent cops from interrogating minors without counsel or taking them to a precinct without consulting parents first.

Drugs

Weed Home Delivery Orders Pending From New York Cannabis Regulator

Dec. 2, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 2, 2022, 6:45 a.m.

With high-maintenance retail outlets slow to open, state fast-tracks launch of courier services.

Incarceration

CEO of Nonprofit That Ran Scandal-Plagued Inmate Hotel Program Steps Down

Dec. 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m.Dec. 1, 2022, 7:48 p.m.

Julio Medina, the founder of Exodus Transitional Community, resigns as the nonprofit faces five separate investigations.

Criminal Justice

Two Dead, Canceled Contracts and Abrupt Board Resignation from Exodus CEO

Nov. 23, 2022, 5:00 a.m.March 14, 2024, 2:22 p.m.

Julio Medina quietly resigned his role on the that oversees city jails, THE CITY has learned, as his group that provides post-incarceration services faces new scrutiny.

Racism

Recipients of City Funds to Fight Hate Crimes Remain a Mystery

Nov. 21, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 18, 2022, 5:37 p.m.

Nearly two years after the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes began giving grants to community groups, they can’t say who’s received that money or what it’s achieved.

Courts

Eric Adams Insider on Harvey Weinstein Legal Team Got Advance Word of Judge’s Lost Reappointment

Nov. 8, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 9, 2022, 2:58 p.m.

A friend of Frank Carone got wind of the secret decision made by a judicial advisory .

Technology

City Jails Move to Digitize Mail, Which Led Other Lockups Into Legal Fights

Nov. 4, 2022, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 3, 2022, 4:45 p.m.

Apart from the obvious privacy and intimacy issues that come with reading everyone’s letters and turning them into emails, experts note that similar efforts in other states haven’t reduced contraband.

Criminal Justice

Manhattan DA Seeks ‘Red Flag’ Gun Ban for Comptroller Employee

Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers

For ‘Clemency Season,’ Prisoner Advocates Want Hochul to Keep Promise All Year

Lawyers, Advocates Prod Albany for More Legal Protections for Kids Under Arrest

Weed Home Delivery Orders Pending From New York Cannabis Regulator

CEO of Nonprofit That Ran Scandal-Plagued Inmate Hotel Program Steps Down

Two Dead, Canceled Contracts and Abrupt Board Resignation from Exodus CEO

Recipients of City Funds to Fight Hate Crimes Remain a Mystery

Eric Adams Insider on Harvey Weinstein Legal Team Got Advance Word of Judge’s Lost Reappointment

City Jails Move to Digitize Mail, Which Led Other Lockups Into Legal Fights

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