The funds are from a class-action settlement from 2012, which required New York City to pay $15 million to approximately 22,000 New Yorkers who were illegally charged by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) under unconstitutional “loitering” statutes.
Nearly $165,000 in residual class-action settlement funds to support four nonprofits in providing critical service to the homeless and other marginalized New Yorkers
Transform Don’t Trash NYC coalition released a report detailing how NYC produces more commercial waste, recycles less, and is more inefficient than previously believed.
Transform Don’t Trash NYC coalition urges the administration to include a waste reduction goal in PlaNYC.
New report exposes numerous accessibility barriers for people with physical disabilities at NYC courthouses, finds the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) in violation of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Carey R. Dunne of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Don H. Liu of Xerox Corporation honored for their dedication to public service.
Will lead NYLPI’s health justice program, helping to advance the civil rights of marginalized New Yorkers.
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