New York State Team
The stakes are real for New York s plan to enforce drugged-driving laws after legalizing recreational marijuana last week. Just look to the experience of other states.
An Oregon mother sentenced to six years in prison for smoking marijuana before a deadly car crash, killing a 52-year-old man in 2016. Prosecutors accused the 36-year-old woman of getting high two hours before driving her children in a Kia Sportage that slammed head-on into two cars.
She pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and other charges in 2019 in Oregon, where drugged-driving struggles have lingered since the state legalized recreational cannabis in 2014.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Carrie Cohen is an expert in public corruption and state and local government who made a name for herself by prosecuting former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. At Morrison & Foerster – or MoFo – she has assisted the New York City Council in investigations into the behavior of several members, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a review of overtime practices, and a Rochester City Council probe into the death of Daniel Prude.
54. David Patton
Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief, Federal Defenders of New York
A federal defender for nearly 20 years, David Patton in 2011 became the executive director and attorney-in-chief of the Federal Defenders of New York, a group that provides representation to those in need. During the coronavirus pandemic, Patton has been representing prisoners who are at high risk of catching the disease, telling Slate that the response by “prosecutors and prison officials to COVID-19 has been hard to fathom.”
Albany ransomware attack targeted data back to 2017
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1of5Buy PhotoThe Albany Police Department headquarters building is seen on Monday, March 8, 2021, on Henry Johnson Blvd. in Albany, N.Y. A 2019 ransomware attack damaged more of the city police department internal affairs files than previously acknowledged. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of5Buy PhotoThe Albany Police Department headquarters building is seen on Monday, March 8, 2021, on Henry Johnson Blvd. in Albany, N.Y. A 2019 ransomware attack damaged more of the city police department internal affairs files than previously acknowledged. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Damage from Albany, N.Y., Cyberattack Dates Back to 2017
Damage from the 2019 ransomware attack on the city police department internal affairs computer system stretches back to files as early as September 2017, according to the district attorney’s office. by Steve Hughes, Times Union / March 9, 2021 Shutterstock/nuclear lily
(TNS) The damage from the 2019 ransomware attack on the city police department internal affairs computer system went further back than previously revealed.
The district attorney s office said it recently found out the damage from the March 30, 2019 attack went back to September 2017. In a February letter, District Attorney David Soares office modified its previous statement, saying only that digital data had been lost, rather than actual files.
Leadership questions remain for Albany LEAD arrest-diversion program
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Brian Shea, chief of operation to Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, wrote a letter to the Times Union that states that Sheehan is “disappointed with the (LEAD) program’s shortcomings” and that the city will take on a greater roll in running it. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Alice Green, executive director of the Center for Law and Justice, in Albany, N.Y. wants to know why city leaders haven t reached out to her to ask about plans to improve the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program, which aims to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate low-level offenders. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less