A Chance to Repeal a ‘Walking While Trans’ Ban
Leave your thoughtsIn 1976, New York criminalized behavior described as “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.” The statute…
Category: Policing and Criminal Justice
Transgender Asylum Seeker Asks For Release From ICE Detention
Leave your thoughtsWhen Yimy Aldair Benitez Lopez was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last November, they had one major fear…
Charged With Prostitution, She Went to a Special Court. Did It Help?
Leave your thoughtsSix years after New York created Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, some say the system isn’t living up to its promise.…
Youth activists march through St. George to site of Eric Garner’s death
Leave your thoughtsSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 100 youth activists marched from Borough Hall to the Bay Street spot where Eric…
Crime and Punishment Have Both Plummeted in Bushwick
Leave your thoughtsAbove: Officers from the 83rd Precinct on an Easter visit to see sick kids at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Crime.…
Albany votes to legalize e-bikes days after green-lighting driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
Leave your thoughtsState lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that would legalize e-bikes and e-scooters in New York City after a deal was reached…
Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Driver’s Licenses
Leave your thoughtsAs a single father, there’s nothing more important to me than my daughter’s well-being. When she’s sick or has a…
Allowing undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses would be boon for both New York and New Jersey, study says
Leave your thoughtsALBANY — Allowing nearly 1.2 million driving age immigrants in the tri-state area access to driver’s licenses could fatten the…
Activists hope to put pressure on banks that finance Homestead migrant detention center
Leave your thoughtsCritics of the Homestead detention center for unaccompanied migrant children have hung signs in the trees expressing their contempt for…
This Is How Sex Workers Will Change the Law
Leave your thoughtsMore than 100 sex workers, trafficking survivors, and advocates traveled to Albany, New York, on Tuesday to lobby state lawmakers…