Chronicles
The Queens Defenders Chronicles is a regularly updated run-down of the variety of events and programs we offer.
Queens Defenders & Queens Public Library Partnership Program Helps 25 Recent Parolees with Tech Resources
This innovative program aims to support participants in many ways now that the world has so dramatically changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Queens Defenders Expands Food Pantry and Community Services to Jamaica Area
Queens Defenders is very excited to share an expansion of our Community Outreach services to the Jamaica area. These new services include weekly pop-up food pantry events, and expansion of our community-based immigration, housing, and legal support, and new initiatives launching in the coming weeks and months.
Queens Defenders Food Pantry Partners with JEWELEX to Serve Thousands of Families
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unimaginable impact it had on our community, Queens Defenders began a Food Pantry to serve families impacted by domestic violence in Far Rockaway.
Youth Justice Court Goes Virtual
The Queens Defenders Youth Justice Court program serves as a bridge to mend relationships in communities and schools throughout Queens.
Building Up Young People and Giving Space to Thrive as an Activist
The Queens Defenders BLANK Project allows for local youth to learn about the law, how to organize, and bring awareness to current events and social issues.
Youth Spotlight: Lastra
At the start of her junior year at Scholars Academy, Lastra walked into our Rockaway Outreach Center to see what it was all about.
Queens Defenders Partners with JusticeText to Expedite Review of Crucial Discovery
Queens Defenders is partnering with JusticeText, an audiovisual evidence management software, to expedite the review of body camera footage, interrogation videos, jail calls, and other crucial discovery.
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Queens Defenders is proud to be part of the Alliance to Protect Kalief’s Law. This past Monday we joined advocates across the state to call on Albany to protect discovery reform, because New York's discovery laws work!
NEW YORK'S DISCOVERY LAWS WORK!
Repealing NY discovery laws will not “reduce delays,” “streamline case processing” or “close loopholes,” as the Governor claims. Instead, it will gut #KaliefsLaw, leading to more wrongful convictions, coerced plea deals, and clogged courts.
JOIN US: Thurs. @ 11am, we're rallying in NYC + Albany to demand an end to prison abuse. Guards have brutalized, sexually assaulted & killed Black and brown people in New York's prisons for decades. We demand basic rights for incarcerated people, real pathways to release & more.