New York State Team
ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation giving people convicted of a felony the right to vote once they’ve been released from incarceration, building on a 2018 executive order restoring the right for many people on parole.
Cuomo s signing of the legislation this week was hailed by criminal justice advocates and legislators who said that barring people from the process harkened back to segregation and continued to disenfranchise people of color.
“With today s expansion of voting rights, we realize a principle that our segregation-era laws have sought to deny: every citizen has equal worth and deserves the right to vote,” said Assemblyman Danny O Donnell, D-Manhattan.
The answer may be a little bit of both.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been quick to say the broadband access gap has been closed by his Broadband for All program, though many including state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay disagree with Cuomo’s assessment. The governor is looking to boost broadband access by requiring private companies to provide a $15 rate so that low-income residents can have access to broadband internet.
There are pockets of Chautauqua County lagging behind in internet access according to a fall 2020 survey compiled by the state Education Department. The New York Civil Liberties Union recently filed a Freedom of Information Law request for the survey, which showed that more than 165,000 students in New York state (6%) lacked internet access. In Chautauqua County, 1,058 of the county’s 18,353 students (5.76%) had no access to internet. The same percentage of students had no access to a device to access the internet.
Credit WAER file photo The New York Civil Liberties Union says it will appeal a decision by a judge to reject its lawsuit against the Syracuse Police Department for denying access to records pertaining to complaints of police misconduct. The NYCLU claims the previously secret records are now authorized to be publicly disclosed pursuant to a freedom of information request following the repeal of section 50a of state civil rights law. Senior Staff Attorney Bobby Hodgson says the judge seems to have based his decision on a previously existing FOIL exemption.
This decision has adopted the Syracuse Police Department s argument that as a blanket categorical matter, any complaint against a police officer that didn t result in discipline, the release of any portion of the complaint would constitute an invasion of privacy.
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SU’s Class of ’21 makes it to the finish line: Last summer, Syracuse University invited back 23,000 students and 5,000 employees for a year of uncertainty. Families and students wondered if it was worth the hefty price tag to sit in a dorm room watching a professor on the screen. Kids doubted it would last. They packed like it was a two-week vacation. No one thought they would make it to the end of the year. They did. Here are their stories.