Safer NY Act News

Safer NY Act is a package of bills in the New York State Legislature that would help increase police transparency and help increase accountability to New Yorkers' most common encounters with police. The #SaferNYAct includes: the Police Statistics and Transparency (STAT) Act, codifying and strengthening the Special Prosecutor executive order, reducing Unnecessary Arrests for low-level, ticketable offenses, repealing the NYS police secrecy law (CRL section 50-a), and legalizing marijuana with strong attention paid to ensuring that resources are reinvested in communities most harmed by prohibition.

Gov. Cuomo's criminal justice reform efforts are encouraging, but don't go far enough, activists say

Communities United for Police Reform expressed disappointment that Cuomo 'did not discuss the need for a special prosecutor to investigate cases where New Yorkers are killed in police encounters.'
01/25/2015
New York Daily News

Nothing in New York politics is easy, and Gov. Cuomo’s proposals to reform the criminal justice system — which attempt to respond to the controversy over what many think is the impunity given to the police officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown — are no exception.

Cuomo Pushing for Grand Jury Reports in Police Fatality Cases

01/21/2015
DNAinfo

NEW YORK CITY—Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a plan to allow district attorneys to release grand jury information in cases where police kill unarmed civilians and the panel declines to indict the officers involved.

"People have to trust the justice system," Cuomo said during his State of the State address Wednesday in Albany.

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