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“Darren Mack, co-founder of...Freedom Agenda questioned Goldsmith’s claim that judges don’t decide where defendants are placed. “Judges know where they’re sending the people they remand or set bail on, and they know what’s likely to happen to the people they send to Rikers.”New Amsterdam News
"Mohamed Attia, managing director at the Street Vendor Project, said that while DSNY’s enforcement already exists elsewhere, the ballot measure greenlights agency deployment against vendors in city parks.”NY Times
"The Safety Net Project's... lawsuit accuses the city of routinely violating its own policy on cleanups, which says the city must offer to store certain types of confiscated property for up to 90 days and give the owner a voucher to claim it.”News 12
“These sweeps are just ultimately a counterproductive and harmful practice,” said Natalie Druce, staff attorney with the [Safety Net Project of the] Urban Justice Center.Press Releast
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“The residents and the Urban Justice Center–Safety Net Project claimed the city has wrongfully seized and destroyed their belongings without due process of law.”PIX 11
“Helen Strom, the homeless advocacy director for the Safety Net Project says ‘Right now, over four-thousand sweeps are happening every year in our city.’”The City
“City data shared from the Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project...showed more than 1,000 homeless New Yorkers were caught up in encampment sweeps between January and June of this year, with hundreds of encampment sweeps each month in the time Adams has been in office.”AM NY
“Sweeps are cruel, counterproductive, and cause immense harm to homeless New Yorkers,” said Natalie Druce, staff attorney with the Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project.© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
