Apr 29, 2020
Some New York State Senate Democrats want Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration to halt collection of various fees and fines during the novel coronavirus pandemic. It’s the right idea. Collection of at least some of those debts need to be delayed during an...
Apr 27, 2020
Sixty state legislators signed a letter sent to Gov. Cuomo on Friday, urging him to take seven (7) steps, using his expanded executive authority, to prevent poverty-based police-civilian interactions and incarceration, and to provide relief from widespread financial...
Mar 17, 2020
The property tax cap creates perverse incentives for criminalizing low-income people of color and turning the police into revenue generators. It’s wrong to create a criminal record for those who can’t afford to buy back their driver’s licenses. Read the full op-ed by...
Feb 18, 2020
A new report released today by the Racial Justice Project at New York Law School found that New Yorkers of color are disproportionately stopped, ticketed, arrested, charged, and convicted for traffic violations and driving on a suspended license. Read more...
Jan 24, 2019
“What we’ve seen in our research is that the mechanisms vary, depending on the region,” says Joanna Weiss, co-director of the Fines and Fees Justice Center. “But they have one thing in common: They use the justice system to wring revenue out of the poorest Americans —...
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