Parole reform activists and formerly incarcerated people heightened their cries across the state this week, pleading with lawmakers to increase New Yorkers’ opportunities to be released from prison as this
ALBANY — State senators unanimously voted Thursday to pass the Adult Survivors Act to open a look-back window for survivors of sexual abuse to file litigation against their accusers.
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ALBANY - The state Senate on Wednesday passed a series of new gun-control laws, the latest in a decade-long bid to have more stringent gun laws in New York.
The package of bills comes as lawmakers plan to end the legislative session for the year next week. With the bills passed in the Senate, it will then be up to the Democrat-controlled Assembly to do the same and then send the measures to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for approval.
“We must do everything we can to eliminate the scourge of violence that has cut too many lives short and devastated too many families, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said in a statement.
In Rochester and other cities around the state, groups held rallies yesterday in support the so-called Clean Slate legislation that would automatically seal and expunge old criminal convictions..