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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.
Addressing the ongoing public health crisis arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic may require real changes to how New Yorkers exercise constitutional rights, including the right to vote. As a first and immediate step, we must ensure that as many voters as possible can vote by mail.
While the NYCLU applauds the Division’s longstanding commitment to combating discrimination against transgender and gender nonconforming people, it urges the Division to use this opportunity to do more than insert the text of GENDA into its regulations.
AN ACT to repeal section 240.37 of the penal law, relating to loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.
As civil immigration enforcement has grown more aggressive under the Trump administration, one of the more pernicious tactics used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the practice of arresting people in or around courthouses.
Relates to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis and other health care services for sexual assault victims
The cruelty of the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border shined a light on the plight of immigrant children who arrive in the United States without their parents.
