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Queens Defenders Board of Directors has appointed Anthony Martone as Interim Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer

Public Defenders Share Letter To Gov. Kathy Hochul – Saving IOLA Wasn’t Enough. Stop the ILSF Sweep & Fund Public Defense.

Justice Roadmap 2024 Launch

Public and Appellate Defenders call on NYC District Attorneys for a Full, Transparent and Independent Audit of the NYPD Latent Print Section

New York City Public Defenders File Amicus Brief in Support of the Appointment of a Federal Receiver Over NYC Jails in Nunez v. City of New York

Public Defenders and Civil Legal Services Providers Call for Increased Funding to Ensure High Quality Representation and Other Critical Services for Low-Income New Yorkers

Joint Statement in Response to Council Speaker Adrienne Adams State of the City Address Remarks on Funding for Public Defender, Civil Legal Services Organizations

Joint Statement on Mayor Adams’ Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Testimony Before the New York State Legislature

QUEENS DEFENDERS NYCLU, ADVOCATES AND ELECTEDS DEMAND ANSWERS FROM NYPD STRATEGIC RESPONSE GROUP

In Response to Reporting on Local Mental Health Courts, Defenders Call on Albany to Codify the Treatment Not Jail Act

Governor Hochul’s 2024 Budget Proposal Fails Vulnerable New Yorkers

Letter to Governor Hochul Calling for the Urgent Need for Cash Assistance Grant Increases

Queens Defenders & NYS Assembly Member Khaleel Anderson Break Ground on the Queens Defenders’ Emergency Distribution Center for Far Rockaway

Queens Defenders Promotes Brian Schatz to Director of Community-Based Initiatives & External Affairs

Defenders, Legal Services Organizations, Currently Facing Dire Staffing, Operational Funding Needs, Call on Mayor Adams, Speaker Adams and City Council Members For Increased Resources in the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget

NYC Public Defenders Letter of Priorities for Remainder of Legislative Session on Criminal Legal System Reform

Statewide Family Defense Advocates Lay Out Legislative Agenda for 2022

NYC Defender Joint Statement in Response to Mayor Adams’ Remarks on Gun Violence

NYC Defenders Demand that City Stop Recording Phone Calls Made by Incarcerated New Yorkers

DOC Commissioner: COVID-19 Infection Rate Skyrocketing in Local Jails

NYC Defenders’ Statement on Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ Comments on Solitary Confinement

NYC Defenders Statement on Death of William Brown, the 16th Person to Die in DOC Custody This Year

NYC Defenders’ Statement on the Death of Malcolm Boatwright in DOC Custody

NYC Defenders Decry Commencement of Transfers of Women and Transgender People on Rikers Island to Upstate Prisons

More than 70 Incarcerated Women and Transgender New Yorkers at Rikers Island Release Petition Protesting Transfers to Upstate Prisons

NYC Defenders Statement on Death of Segundo Guallpa at Rikers Island

NYC Defenders Urge Mayor, Governor, and DOCCS Commissioner to Immediately Address the Humanitarian Crisis in New York City’s Jails

QUEENS DEFENDERS PROMOTES LISA SALTZMAN TO DIRECTOR OF TRAINING

Queens Defenders Commends Manhattan DA’s No Cash Bail Decision, Strongly Encourages Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz to Follow

Queens Defenders Receives Grant from the New York Bar Foundation for the Rockaway Community Justice Center

Queens Defenders Awarded Grant by The Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund for Youth Justice Court Expansion

NYC Defenders Decry Breach of Attorney-Client Privilege in Wrongly Recorded Phone Calls in NYC Jails

NYC Public Defenders Decry The Increase In NYC Jail Population Following The Implementation Of Rollbacks To New York State’s Bail Reform Law

Queens Defenders & Queens Public Library Partner to Provide Immediate Technology Access to Parolees during COVID-19 Pandemic

NYC Public Defenders Demand At Least $1 Billion Cut to NYPD Budget

Queens Defenders is Awarded First Foundation Grant in its History by the Meringoff Family Foundation

Joint NYC Defender Statement On NYPD Brutality

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5 Mar

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!

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3 Mar

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.

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3 Mar

We're in Albany calling on Governor Hochul to abandon the principles of #KaliefsLaw and roll back the landmark discovery reform done in 2019. The Governor claims that sharing evidence with New Yorkers undermines public safety, but that is dangerously wrong.

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19 Feb

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.

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