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:
Judiciary Law § 510(3) not only permanently strips individuals with a felony conviction of a basic right of citizenship—denying them the opportunity to engage in a core part of our system of self-government...
Law enforcement has long been taking advantage of outdated privacy laws to turn mobile phones into tracking devices and to access emails, documents, and text messages without proper judicial oversight. The...
The EmPIRE (Empowering People in Rights Enforcement) Worker Protection Act (A.1893 / S.541) would significantly increase the state’s capacity to enforce labor standards and critical workers’ rights ...
No one should be turned away from a hospital when they need health care. A.733- A/S.1003-A will help ensure that people are aware of whether they can obtain care – particularly types of care that are often...
The New York Constitution must be amended to include robust protections against discrimination that effectively work to hold our state and its institutions accountable for ending discrimination. By...
According to a leaked draft majority opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights. While this...