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Queens Defenders Receives Grant from the New York Bar Foundation for the Rockaway Community Justice Center
Queens Defenders has been awarded a grant by The New York Bar Foundation for its Rockaway Community Justice Cente
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Queens Defenders Awarded Grant by The Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund for Youth Justice Court Expansion
Queens Defenders is pleased to announce that it has received a $16,000 grant for the Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund to expand our innovative Youth Justice Court program to the St. John’s Home for Boys in Rockaway Park, a Close to Home program for young men in foster care placements.
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NYC Defenders Decry Breach of Attorney-Client Privilege in Wrongly Recorded Phone Calls in NYC Jails
(NEW YORK, NY) – Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, The Legal Aid Society, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, New York County Defender Services, and Queens Defenders issued the following joint statement in response to a report that over 1,500 protected calls between people incarcerated in at local jails and their attorneys were wrongly recorded.
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NYC Public Defenders Decry The Increase In NYC Jail Population Following The Implementation Of Rollbacks To New York State’s Bail Reform Law
As of October 6, 2020, there were 3,352 people held pretrial in local jails. This amounts to an increase of 443 people. This increase reflects even larger number of people who are admitted to New York City jails and exposed to others there, as people cycle in and out and every day.
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Queens Defenders & Queens Public Library Partner to Provide Immediate Technology Access to Parolees during COVID-19 Pandemic
QUEENS DEFENDERS & QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY have formed a partnership to equip parolees released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic with smartphones, data plans, and other tech resources.
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NYC Public Defenders Demand At Least $1 Billion Cut to NYPD Budget
(NEW YORK, NY) – The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, New York County Defender Services, Queens Defenders, and Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem sent a letter today to Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Council reiterating their demand that lawmakers cut at least $1 billion from the NYPD budget and redirect those funds low-income communities of color across the city.
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Joint NYC Defender Statement On NYPD Brutality
(NEW YORK, NY) – Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, The Legal Aid Society, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Queens Defenders, and New York County Defender Services issued the following statement on New York City Police Department (NYPD) brutality.
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Gina Mitchell, Attorney-in-Charge for Law Reform and Policy at Queens Defenders, spoke with the Queens Daily Eagle about similarities in the Adams’ NYPD when compared to Giuliani’s.
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