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Jane Shim is a senior policy attorney with the Immigrant Defense Project in New York, which seeks broad changes in how the state and federal government directs its energies against immigrants. She points out that when local prisons work with ICE, they open themselves up to lawsuits when they allegedly restrict people's rights on behalf of ICE. There have been many across the country, both against prisons and local police, such as a $14 million payment LA County had to make late last year. Currently there's a class action lawsuit against the Orange County Correctional Facility and the Oran...

( Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Majority will pass its one-house budget resolution that delivers emergency aid to help New York recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and invests in a brighter, more equitable future by fully funding essential services and putting more money in the pockets of working and middle-class families. The Senate resolution increases total school aid by $5.7 billion, provides billions in residential and commercial rental and foreclosure assistance, restores critical funding to our health care system, and jumpstarts our economy with investments in transportation and small b...

Oregon allocates $100 million to commercial rent relief; application process likely to open in February Updated Jan 12, 2021; Facebook Share Oregon business owners who have struggled to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic will soon get some help from the state. The Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board voted Friday to allocate $100 million toward a new commercial rent relief program administered by Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency. But it could be well over a month before business owners have access to those funds. Nathan Buehler, a spokesman for Business Oreg...

Oregon lawmakers OK millions for pandemic, wildfire costs Emergency Board meets for record 13th time before 2021 session starts Monday. Oregon lawmakers have approved millions in state and federal funds to pay some of the mounting expenses of the coronavirus pandemic and the Labor Day wildfires. The Legislative Emergency Board acted during a four-hour meeting Friday, Jan. 8, its record 13th since the end of the 2020 session and its last before the 2021 session gets under way on Monday, Jan. 11. The 20-member board decides budget matters between sessions. Leaders planned the meeting...

Work will continue during the Legislative session beginning January 19.