Repeal the Blindfold

Fighting for comprehensive criminal discovery reform in NYS. Broad coalition including @innocence, @LegalAidNYC, @NYHTC, & @DistCouncil37. #RepealTheBlindfold

[Repeal the Blindfold @BlindfoldRepeal]

#PressRelease: New York State Enacts Comprehensive Criminal Discovery Reform #RepealTheBlindfold https://t.co/eND618TU9i

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

We just filed a federal class action lawsuit against the City over its unconstitutional DNA collection and storage practices, which have been used to surveil Black and Latinx communities with no safeguards for accountability or regulation.
https://t.co/CilmqazybL

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit against @NYSDOCCS seeking the immediate release of 91 NYers who are currently held on a parole warrant and $1 bail, because those clients have been denied their right to a release hearing guaranteed by the #LessIsMoreAct. https://t.co/zFyBvtUxjP

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#BREAKING: @CorrectionNYC recently admitted that it has not complied with a court order to ensure that incarcerated New Yorkers have access to medical care.

Along with @BklynDefender and @MilbankLaw, we just filed a motion to hold the DOC in contempt.
https://t.co/fuKtvcpYYC

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#BREAKING: We just secured the release pending appeal of #ReginaldRandolph, our client who was sentenced to a state prison term of two to four years for stealing NyQuil from Duane Reade. Read the exclusive from ⁦@elizabethweill⁩ below: https://t.co/8XvEK19rSt

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#BREAKING: Along with @dechertllp, we just filed a class action lawsuit against @GovKathyHochul, @NYSOCFS and @NYCACS challenging practices that deny children in foster care ready, willing and able family members as foster or adoptive parents.
https://t.co/Bb5wgzpK97

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

“Activists’ ultimate dream is for ICE to stop detaining undocumented immigrants while they fight their immigration cases, as was common in the United States before the 1990s.” #FreeThemAll #NYIFUP #RLCC https://t.co/FrnXCb4w6r

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#ICYMI: #JamesDavis, our client who was wrongfully convicted of a 2004 murder and recently released after that conviction was vacated, appeared on the @WrongConviction podcast for an update on what's next with his case.
https://t.co/D8urgfUehT

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

Cc: @eipnyc.

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

***As the NY Legislature Enters its Final Week of Session, Legal Aid Urges Action on Comprehensive Parole Reforms, Clean Slate Legislation***

#ParoleJusticeNY #CleanSlateNY

Press release: https://t.co/ZO9ua9OkKQ

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

#BREAKING: Immigration Advocates Condemn “Disappearance” of Detained Clients After Sudden ICE Transfers, Refusal to Provide Any Information

In Letter to ICE, Defense Attorneys & Advocates Call for Transparency and the Release of Detained Immigrants

PR: https://t.co/WFOL2hudFb

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

"The parole board commissioners basically get a few minutes to look at the parole application. It’s just not enough time to make a reasoned decision and to go through everything. They’re short-changed of the opportunity to conduct a full review..."
https://t.co/eYP3s3pHzg

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

TOMORROW - Join us this Tuesday at 6 PM on our Instagram page (@LegalAidNYC) as we kick off our #GunViolenceAwarenessMonth speaker series with community leaders from around NYC. Cc: @CommJusticeLAS

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

The clock is ticking. We have just three days left to win #CleanSlateNY this year. Help us get the bill over the finish line TOMORROW at 9:30am in Albany (Washington & S. Swan).

Can't join us in person? Join us on Facebook live: https://t.co/2WrrGG2qSH

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

"Only by breaking free of that fear can we end the scourge of wealth-based detention, the crisis of pretrial jailing in this country, and the racial injustice that flows from both."
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[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

In May, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of 109 New Yorkers who were detained illegally by the NYPD, many for days, in violation of New York’s 24-hour arrest-to-arraignment requirement. #ChangingTheThingsWeCannotAccept
https://t.co/1uyzEaWFQ5

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

In October, our Immigration Law Unit won an appellate decision in an ICE prolonged detention case, which ruled that the federal government must justify the prolonged incarceration of certain immigrants. #ChangingTheThingsWeCannotAccept https://t.co/jhYlZV2P7C

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

Attorneys from our Juvenile Rights Practice reaffirmed the need for Albany to enact legislation that would shut down the City’s rogue DNA database, which currently includes the DNA of more than 1,600 minors.
https://t.co/tLKVmdwDhJ

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

In June, after years of advocacy in the courts and communities, Albany finally enacted legislation repealing Police Secrecy Law 50-A. We then immediately called on Albany and City Hall to make these records public. #ChangingTheThingsWeCannotAccept
https://t.co/QAzmajh5Z1

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

In October, Legal Aid & @JennerBlockLLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of @NYHomeless & single adult NYers experiencing homelessness, requiring that the City offer single-occupancy hotel rooms for the duration of the pandemic. #ChangingTheThingsWeCannotAccept https://t.co/frMRfpovKO

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

After footage of the violent arrest of a youth in Rochester went viral, we joined other defenders to demand that Albany enact legislation to end the arrest and prosecution of children under 12 as delinquents. #NoJusticeWithoutUsNYC
https://t.co/f6XflQSpjS