Author: newyork-news
Senator Chuck Schumer waves a Rainbow Flag after asserting new laws on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument on Feb. 15 Donna Aceto Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and Congressmember Dan Goldman — each from New York — formally launched their laws that might make the Rainbow Flag a Congressionally-authorized flag, together with on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument. The invoice’s introduction comes two weeks after the Trump administration eliminated the Rainbow Flag from the flagpole on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument, prompting widespread anger and calls for for the flag’s restoration. Whereas activists and elected officers re-raised a Rainbow Flag on that flagpole,…
Roughly eight weeks into his administration, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being pressed by privateness advocates to dismantle main elements of the NYPD’s surveillance infrastructure — arguing that he can use his mayoral powers to take action. A brand new report launched Thursday by the Surveillance Expertise Oversight Undertaking (S.T.O.P.) lays out eight steps the mayor, a longtime critic of police surveillance, may take with out ready for the Metropolis Council or state lawmakers. The Brooklyn-based civil rights nonprofit, which has been preventing discriminatory surveillance and defending the privateness and civil rights of New Yorkers via analysis, litigation, and coverage advocacy…