Legislative advocacy is a critical part of the NYCLU's interdisciplinary approach to protecting civil liberties, which also includes litigation, community organizing, and communications.
As part of its work to affect legislation the NYCLU distributes dozens of legislative memoranda each year. Legislative memoranda are position papers that the NYCLU distributes to the governor's office and to state legislators and their staffs laying out our views on bills under deliberation or on issues that we feel the Legislature needs to address.
In New York, the impact of the opioid epidemic has been made worse by a two-tiered system of treatment that makes life-saving medication more easily available to New Yorkers who have private insurance while leaving major barriers in place for those poorer and disproportionately Black and Latinx N
Reverse location and keyword warrants request the disclosure of multiple people’s private information simply because they were at a particular location during a specific time frame, or entered certain keywords into a search engine.
Even though the American Medical Association, U.S.
More women in the United States die of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth than in any other developed nation – and New York ranks thirtieth in the nation based on maternal death rates.
Women have been devastated by the economic turmoil fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the lowest women’s labor force participation rate since 1988. Millions of women have left the workforce since its onset, due partly to our society’s ongoing and outsized reliance on
When sex workers and survivors of trafficking experience or witness violence, the threat of arrest and prosecution can make people fearful of reporting to police. It can also be a deterrent to seeking medical treatment, due to fear of healthcare providers reporting to law enforcement.