Yesterday, we asked a court to order the NYPD to stop giving cops access to sealed arrest records. The NYPD illegally uses these records to track and surveil predominantly Black and brown people. If we win—and we expect to—it will be big. Here’s why in 3 tweets. 🧵 1/3 A NY law from 1976 prohibits police from accessing arrest records where the person arrested was not convicted, protecting the presumption of innocence & preventing racial disparities in policing: People shouldn’t be punished/ targeted by police for accusations that r tossed.