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.
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.
No-knock and quick-knock warrants and raids have severe and deadly consequences for communities targeted by aggressive over-policing.
In 2017, workers from across virtually every industry came forward with allegations of sexual harassment as the #MeToo movement threw the pervasiveness of workplace sexual harassment into sharp relief.1 In New York, lawmakers are grappling with rampant – and ongoing – harassment across all employ
The NYCLU urges the Assembly not to pass S.6402 (Gaughran) / A.6344 (Montesano).
New York imposes millions of dollars per year in fees, surcharges, and mandatory minimum fines on criminal defendants, punishing poverty and misguidedly attempting to fund government services on the backs of Black and Brown New Yorkers who can least afford to pay.