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.
VIEW A LIST OF OUR LEGISLATIVE MEMOS BELOW:
The NYCLU opposes S.1042 / A.3596, a bill that would amend New York’s existing revenge porn law to unconstitutionally criminalize publication of “intimate images created by digitization.” The bill violates...
For decades, adolescents in New York have been able to consent on their own to prenatal care, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, as well as abortion care without involving a parent...
In June 2022, the Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to abortion, handing the power to determine whether abortion is legal to the states and stripping millions of their reproductive...
In the 2023 legislative session alone, at least 130 bills have been introduced in at least 34 states targeting medically necessary health care for transgender, gender non- conforming, and nonbinary people....
The New York Civil Liberties Union strongly supports the New York Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would give people who are terminally ill with a prognosis of no more than six months to live the option to...
No-knock and quick-knock warrants and raids have severe and deadly consequences for communities targeted by aggressive over-policing. Under a no-knock warrant, police can barge into a person’s home in the...