Sentences with phrase «as justice center»

The new law enforcement agency — it will be known as the Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs — will be much like the one proposed this year by the governor.

«As the Justice Center has repeatedly explained, the Justice Center is prohibited, by law, from providing OSC with access to unsubstantiated records.

Sundrum says the new agency, known as the Justice Center, and other reforms will «raise the bar» for the care of physically and mentally disabled New Yorkers in state care.

The botched notice comes as Justice Center lawyers are fighting recent court rulings that could alter the way they conduct criminal investigations, which come with the most serious abuse cases.

Not exact matches

The European Court of Justice is expected to rule this year in a major case centered on whether Uber should be treated as a taxi service, which would mean it was subject to rigorous safety and employment rules, or merely as an online platform connecting independent drivers and waiting passengers.

On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violJustice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violjustice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

I believe we have done a fair job of using reason as leaders from other countries routinely tour and study at our judicial centers in awe of the most fair and honest approach to justice the world has ever known.

As part of its new international outreach, the cathedral has opened the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around the globAs part of its new international outreach, the cathedral has opened the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around theJustice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around the globas focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around thejustice and peacemaking initiatives around the globe.

If political life itself is a struggle with reality, interpretation, appraisal, and appreciation of values, as I believe it is, and if truth is the connection between reality and interpretation, then the problematic nature of truth lies at the center of our time's travails with distributive justice, with the balance of nature, and with peace.

For many years, the black church was the hub for teaching, training, employment opportunities as well as acting as a community and social justice center.

With the support of the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as other Christian watchdog organizations, efforts to ensure Christians are legally able to practice their faith in Russia continue.

Long before the founding of Christian public interest law firms, such as the Liberty Fund, The Becket Fund, and the ACLJ [American Center for Law and Justice], the Jehovah's Witnesses were using the courts to establish liberties.

Your government has become the center of domination and subjugation of poor peoples of the world such as ours: peoples with an unsatisfied hunger for justice, a deep thirst for a better and more humane future, and an unquenchable yearning for life.

The hard just war position is taken by a writer such as Keith Pavlischek, who serves at the Center for Public Justice in Washington.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

It is tempting to pass this book off as propaganda, but no one should underestimate Carlson - Thies, who in 1992 began working, from his position at the Center for Public Justice, for the passage of Charitable Choice.

With the increasing discrimination of the individual, however, as a center of keen interest, it became clear that the problem of life's justice to him is a much more complicated and difficult affair.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

Bailey - Chapman previously served as vice president for strategic alliances at the DCI Group and began her career in advocacy working for the Center for Individual Freedom, Americans for Tax Reform and the Institute for Justice.

The funding includes money for the Vera Institute of Justice as well as the New York Immigration Coalition, Empire Justice Center, Northern Manhattan Immigration Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the Hispanic Federation and $ 1 million to Catholic Charities Community Services.

Many of NYPIRG's proposals were endorsed by other good government or advocacy groups such as the League of Women Voters, Empire Justice Center, Common Cause, Consumers Union, Environmental Advocates of New York and the Brennan Center for Justice.

The NYU School of Law will host U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series, cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network, Law Women and the Women of Color Collective.

As part of the Bronx Child Advocacy Center's multidisciplinary team of experts who investigate, respond to, and prosecute cases of child abuse, Lieutenant Michael Donovan explains the seamless way the team helps child victims of abuse get the protection and justice they deserve.

The case centered on the meaning of what constitutes an «official act,» with Chief Justice John Roberts agreeing with McDonnell that instructions to his jury were so broad as to include almost anything a public official did.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

Epstein, whom Kavanagh supported, is a lawyer who works as the associate director of the Urban Justice Center.

As the lawsuit raged, a Justice Department consultant measured the Holding Center's suicide rate at five times the national average.

One, such as $ 250,000 to the Center for Elder Law and Justice, which provides legal services and elder abuse prevention services in the region, carries on funding that began with retired former Sen. Dale Volker.

The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).

Breslin concluded that the case should have been led by Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who is elected, not the Justice Center whose lawyers do not stand for election, as required in the state Constitution.

Both parents and service providers offered complaints about the Justice Center and other state agencies such as the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, which operates and licenses facilities statewide.

Additionally, it should be noted that vast majority of deaths reported to the Justice Center are due to things such as old age, or other causes unrelated to abuse and neglect.»

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

Abinanti, who at one point proposed a bill to abolish the Justice Center (it didn't gain traction in the Legislature) said he recently had an lengthy meeting between agency officials and parents of the disabled as well as operators of centers for the disabled and other providers overseen by the Justice Center.

The total cost for the design and construction of the Dutchess County Justice and Transiton Center, as well as the project definition for the new Youth Center, will total $ 192,150,000.

Poorly trained deputies at the Erie County Holding Center — not a heart attack — killed inmate Richard Metcalf Jr. in November 2012, a state agency says as it urges the district attorney to begin a criminal investigation and the U.S. Justice Department to again examine the Sheriff's Office for civil rights violations.

A national research center established at UCLA and focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college's first endowed professor as its director.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, center, at a news conference in Washington, where he is best known as a collegial, next - generation Democrat with a keen interest in criminal justice reform.

The half - dozen motions filed by attorneys for the defendants describe Buffalo as the «center of gravity» in the Buffalo Billion case and state that transferring the case to Buffalo «is in the interest of justice, for the convenience of witnesses and the parties and for judicial economies.

In addition to Rikers Island, which is run by New York City, the report listed the other «worst offenders» as the Greene County Jail in Catskill, the Buffalo area's Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility, the Dutchess County Jail in Poughkeepsie, and the Syracuse area's Onondaga County Justice Center and Penitentiary.

OAG is working with CNYCN, as well as the Empire Justice Center, to assist in the operations of NYS - MAP.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Crawley was met with loud cheers from about two dozen Black Lives Matter protesters as he walked out of the Onondaga County Justice Center Friday after spending the night in jail.

Kerry Kennedy has spent her life crusading for human rights, as a lawyer and as the president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.

Originally from Chicago, Hernandez is director of the University of New Haven's Myatt Center for Diversity and Inclusion, and said he wants to boost athletics and supports restorative justice practices as a way to handle disciplinary issues.

Hein wants $ 1.6 million in the county budget to renovate the former storage area of the broadway Probation Department building as the new «Restorative Justice and Community Empowerment Center.»

They've got a lot of work to do, as a number of deals were reached over the weekend — including one on the governor's top priority, the Justice Center.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said her onetime boss, Jay Kiyonaga, engaged in harassment and other misconduct, which she reported, but her complaint about him was «swept... right under the rug.»

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.