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IDs, Coats, A Microwave: The Few Items Stored During NYC Homeless Encampment Sweeps
Gothamist
"In October, six homeless New Yorkers and the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project sued the Adams administration in federal court, alleging the sweeps violated people’s due process and protections against unreasonable searches and seizures."
Food for Thought: Hispanic Roots and the Next Generation’s Impact
PBS
"The Street Vendor Project advocates so heavily to make sure...[you] can continue to work without looking over your shoulder constantly to see if NYPD or Department of Sanitation or the Parks Department is gonna come and give you $1,000 ticket and ruin your livelihood."
DOGE’s Expanded Social Security Access Raises Fresh Privacy Fears: ‘The Stakes Are Very High’
Morningstar
“Ann Biddle, a litigation supervisor at [Mental Health Project of] the Urban Justice Center, who specializes in Social Security disability law, said while Americans may be used to hearing that their credit-card data and name may have been hacked in a data breach, that's quite different from sensitive medical information being revealed broadly."
Mayor Adams Announces Plan To Close Rikers Jail Barge, Create Marine Terminal In Hunts Point
Bronx Times
“Like Rikers, the Boat has facilitated mass incarceration and dehumanization. Today’s announcement is a victory for all of our members who have suffered its harms, and raised their voices to call for its closure,” said Darren Mack, Co-Director of Freedom Agenda, said in a statement.”Chinatown Residents Propose New Location For Manhattan Jail In Rikers’ Closure Plan
Amsterdam News
“Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, needs more assurance about Rikers’ closure. The borough-based jail advocate pointed to the 38 people who died in or immediately after DOC custody over the past three years, almost all of whom were held on Rikers Island.”Amid Rikers Crisis, Bronx Borough Jail Builders Start Design Process
Mott Haven Herald
“That grief, anger, and an impulse to shield other families from the pain she knows are why she wants to see Rikers Island closed. Carter says she joined the jail reform group, the Freedom Agenda, to pursue this goal. “With Rikers, it’s a huge task; it’s a whole day of a visit,” she said."