Sentences with phrase «justice reforms passed»
Streamlined suspect identification procedures are among several criminal justice reforms passed at the state level this year.
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«A few critical ones include passing the Dream Act and driver's licenses for all, strengthening the rent laws and standing up to the real estate tycoons who pad the pockets of Albany politicians to pad their own bottom lines, and implementing real criminal justice reform that includes full bail reform.
«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»
The Assembly passed a «raise the age» bill on Tuesday as part of a 12 - bill criminal justice reform package, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo — as in previous years — has included a similar proposal in his executive budget.
The city's five primary public defender organizations have teamed up to put pressure on the state legislature to pass meaningful criminal justice reforms after the measures were left out of the state budget.
Criminal justice reforms that were left out of the state budget should be passed by lawmakers before the end of the legislative session in June, the city's five primary public defender organizations say.
This year's state budget, which passed earlier this month, allocates money for criminal justice reform, but the details of that package have yet to be negotiated by the governor and the legislature.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie — the first black to hold the powerful perch — told a gathering of business, labor and nonprofit leaders today that his ascension to the powerful position «would be in vain» if Albany fails to pass some kind of criminal justice reform during his tenure.
The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»
I welcome his remarks, and look forward to working with the Chief Justice, the Governor, and Legislature to pass meaningful reform during this legislative session.»
«Parliament recognised that the inquest system is in urgent need of reform when it passed the Coroners and Justice Act just two years ago with cross-party support,» Inquest co-director Helen Shaw said.
He cited criminal justice reforms under Cuomo, including the closure of 24 state prisons, the raising of the age at which youths can be charged with a crime, prioritizing community reentry programs, and helping pass laws allowing identification photo arrays at trial and videotaping of police interrogations.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.
The NYC Council passed a series of criminal justice reforms to sharply curtail the punishments for low - level offenses such as littering and peeing in public, an overhaul intended to help unclog the courts and jails of the nation's largest city.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Saturday released a petition email highlighting the push for juvenile justice reform in the $ 152 billion budget proposal expected to pass at the end of this month.
«We've been trying to pass a number of reforms that could help make the criminal justice system operate better.
«It's important to me that a lot of issues have been unresolved since the budget passed, things like the Child Victims Act — which is important to me — things like criminal justice reform,» Sepulveda said.
A few critical ones include passing the Dream Act and driver's licenses for all, strengthening the rent laws and standing up to the real estate tycoons and implementing real criminal justice reform that includes full bail reform.»
And she added that the city has an immigrant health initiative, passed legislation keeping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement off of Rikers Island and the Criminal Justice Reform Act — and has hosted events around the city «to really inform members of our community about their rights.»
The budget is scheduled to pass by March 29, but a range of issues, from bolstering mass transit in New York City to criminal justice reforms, remain up in the air.
They are able to pass smart justice reforms that will have a positive impact on public safety.
Another civil contempt resolution, giving the green light for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to sue the Justice Department to get the Fast and Furious documents, passed by a 258 - 95 margin.
«Four years later, this Council has passed historic legislation with the Criminal Justice Reform Act to make this a more fair and just city.
They note that while some major liberal issues have passed the Senate under Republican and IDC control, like a minimum wage increase and paid family leave, other major issues like criminal justice reform, the DREAM Act and ethics reform have foundered.
Known as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the package of bills that passed last year created a new civil system for handling minor offenses that in the past often resulted in open warrants and the possibility of arrests for a disproportionate number of minority New Yorkers.
I thought the Friedrichs decision was going to be the big ed reform news a few years ago — until Justice Scalia went and passed away.
Especially with a cadre of new governors and legislators taking office, along with issues that intersect with education such as criminal justice reform on the agenda, reformers should use the time now to pass meaningful legislation that will help all of our children.
The constitutional amendments and the legislation package for the so - called «justice reform» passed by the Albanian parliament during 2016 have found opposition mainly from allegedly corrupted judges who see the reform as devastating for their future carrier.
The Wisconsin Civil Justice Council played a leading role in developing and passing each of these reforms.
In 2011, the Tennessee legislature passed the Tennessee Civil Justice Act, which was their form of Tort Reform (everyone's favorite dinner table discussion!)
The next big reform to the legal aid system came in 1999 when the Access to Justice Act was passed.
Andy once again helped lead a coalition of business groups in passing more civil justice reforms during the 2013 - 14 Wisconsin legislative session.
Most barristers with a passing interest in court reform will have been aware in recent years of a clutch of reform initiatives led by senior judges, which concern the administration of justice.