Sentences with phrase «aid society said»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a five - pronged package in January that included these reforms as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda, and the organizations were led to believe they would be part of the state's finalized budget after months of discussions with elected officials, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society said.
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«The IRS Form 1040X looks more intimidating than it is,» said Marshall Hunt, certified public accountant and director of tax policy for the Accounting Aid Society's tax assistance program in metro Detroit.
All that said, Equal Liberty should be appreciated as an improvement on strict no - aid versions of church - state separation and welcomed as a powerful response to those who contend that our Constitution requires a naked public square or a civil society evacuated of religious argument and expression.
«Traditionally, West Rogers Park in Chicago was the port of entry,» said Howard Cohen, assistant administrator for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
If the NYPD wants to be truly transparent, it'd name the four officers who fatally shot a mentally ill Brooklyn man armed with a metal pipe that cops thought was a gun, a Legal Aid Society official said.
«We are deeply disappointed that the City Council passed a flawed Right To Know Act which will do little to end deceptive and often abusive NYPD searches,» said Tina Luongo, Attorney - In - Charge of the Criminal Defense Practice at The Legal Aid Society.
Bryan Browns, the Suffolk County Legal Aid Society's trial director, said if Sini is committed to this issue, «it would change the landscape in Suffolk County.»
Such proclamations, however, are not enough, Legal Aid Society attorney Anthony Posada said on Thursday via telephone.
The Legal Aid Society challenged the state's new familial DNA testing proposal, saying the move is an abuse of power.
«Governor Cuomo and the legislature could today pass legislation which would close landlord loopholes,» said Judith Goldiner, Supervising Attorney of the Legal Aid Society's Law Reform Unit.
«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.
She praised the 90 - day review underway of the city's homeless services, being led by Human Resources Commissioner Steven Banks — the former head of Legal Aid Society who she said she's known even longer than the mayor — and said she'd offer her own input.
The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that Suinner allegedly hacked the email address and cloned the letterhead of a company named Greenview Development Nigeria Limited and used same to write a letter to Access Bank Plc to transfer the sum of N25m to the account of ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society domiciled with United Bank for Africa.
«This takes an emotional toll on the kids, and puts them even further behind their peers,» said Susan J. Horwitz, Senior Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, which represents several of the families involved in the suit.
«As the public advocate and an attorney, previously worked of the Legal Aid Society, I will also serve as an attorney in this capacity, pro bono,» Ms. James said at a press conference on the City Hall steps Tuesday.
The result of Rockefeller Drug Law reform has been «not as good as the defense had hoped and not as terrible as the prosecutors had feared,» said attorney William Gibney of the Legal Aid Society in New York.
Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.
«This set of reforms helps to move the criminal «justice» system closer to actual justice and away from an overreliance on arrests, prosecution and jail for low - level offenses,» said Tina Luongo, the attorney in charge of the criminal defense practice at the Legal Aid Society.
«For the past half century, Family Court has played a vital role in resolving issues that so deeply affect children, parents and caregivers,» said New York State Bar Association President Seymour W. James, Jr. (The Legal Aid Society in New York City).
«We are very pleased that the Court granted the motion for preference,» said Justine Luongo, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society.
Tina Luongo, Attorney - in - Charge of the Criminal Practice for the Legal Aid Society, said ICE agents have been seen at New York City courthouses much more frequently since President Donald Trump took office on January 20.
Cuomo aides again touted a clemency website launched last year and said they were partnering with the New York County Lawyers Association, the state and New York City bar associations, the Legal Aid Society and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to provide pro bono assistance to people seeking pardons or commutations.
The public has the right to know who is stopping them, why they are being questioned and how to address any improper behavior by police officers,» said the letter from the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, and others.
A portion of the money will be used for the Children's Aid Society to build a new community center on the site, Oddo said.
It's sort of like a mutual aid society,» Mr. Cohen said.
Although we could not confirm this, a statement from the City Council said that a court has order postponement of After the Legal Aid Society filed suit Thursday, the city reportedly agreed to postpone implementation of the rules until next month.
Professor John Idoko, the newly elected President of the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) has said in the past...
«Although we have continually asked NYCHA to fix these problems, NYCHA has refused,» said Robert Desir, a staff attorney at Legal Aid Society, which is representing the plaintiffs along with Legal Services NYC.
But ««there is broad support for the idea of oversight and review and a rigorous focus on the highest priority science with our precious research dollars,» says Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Chris Beyrer, president of the International AIDS Society.
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»
Study co-author Linda - Gail Bekker, MD, PhD — Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and current President of the International AIDS Society — says, «Whether the yardstick is mortality, life expectancy or new transmissions, these reductions would almost certainly produce proportionally greater harm than savings — do more human harm than economic good.»
The International AIDS Society (IAS), which stages the biannual international meeting that attract more than 20,000 attendees, says it is considering holding the 2012 gathering in Washington, D.C..
«I know the Philippines government is trying to maximize law and order in these areas and civil society is trying to take the lead on [removing the bodies],» says Tom Price, a spokesman for Catholic Relief Services, an aid and development group that has worked in the Philippines for decades.
In the same way, Pomeranz says our society didn't start rallying around HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment, and care until laws that made homosexuality illegal were overturned.
Fallon defended the firm, saying: «Faced with that challenge and reality, we as a leading learning company have a responsibility to work with every part of society, government, local authorities, aid - agencies, charities, and, yes, local entrepreneurs and private companies as well — to give as many people as we can the chance of a better education and a better start in life.»
says Scott Bloom, director of mental health for the school - based clinics run by the Children's Aid Society.
«We felt that it would be good for the members of the club to know that we on the foundation board were expanding our interests to something as important and timely as helping with the problems of education,» said Truda Jewett, chairwoman of Harvard Club of New York and executive associate of external affairs for The Children's Aid Society.
Education is a field where value to society is not reflected in income, so it is important for HGSE to establish prestigious fellowships and abundant financial aid opportunities in order to enroll the highest caliber students — students who, as Hobbs says, might otherwise opt for business, law, or medical school.
Buery, the former president and C.E.O. of the Children's Aid Society, which manages community schools in New York, said he's most interested in seeing how Cincinnati has integrated the community schools into its overall educational system.
Jane Quinn, vice president of community schools at The Children's Aid Society, which partners with 22 schools in New York City, says the push for more community school is an «equity issue.»
This will aid us in building a premiere facility to serve Jacksonville's animals and further inspire our community to think adoption first for decades to come,» said Denise Deisler, Executive Director, Jacksonville Humane Society.
His body is a culturally important one, and I felt that us documenting it in a different way actually aids in a better understanding of rock music and society,» Deller says.
«For a clear and depressing account of the mess that legal aid is in, and why it has real value to society at large, you can do no better than to read Sir Henry Brooke's blog,» FitzGibbon said.
Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»
Law Society president Joe Egan said «The financial eligibility test for civil legal aid is disqualifying people from receiving badly - needed legal advice and representation, even though they are already below the poverty line... The position has been getting progressively worse, because the means test thresholds have been frozen since 2010, while the cost of living, of course, has not.
Mark Benton, executive director of the Legal Services Society, said it endorses the conclusion that the current scope and availability of legal aid in B.C. does not meet the need, and endorses the recommendation that legal aid be recognized as an essential public service and be better funded.
«The high incidence of legal problems is troubling,» said Mark Benton, QC, Executive Director of the Legal Services Society, the organization that provides legal aid in BC.
«We believe this service has broad - based application to the legal aid societies as well as a relationship development device for attorneys,» Velez says.
«The financial eligibility test for civil legal aid is disqualifying people from receiving badly - needed legal advice and representation, even though they are already below the poverty line,» said Law Society president Joe Egan.
Law Society president Robert Bourns said hundreds of thousands of people eligible for legal aid one day became ineligible the very next, but it was a «false economy».