We are the New York state affiliate of the @ACLU, fighting for the rights of all New Yorkers.
Aug 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: Nassau County's mask ban has been signed. It takes effect immediately.
Officials should be supporting New Yorkers’ right to voice their views and protect their health, not fueling widespread doxxing and threatening arrests.
The ban’s so-called health and religious exceptions will result in police officers — who are not medical or religious experts, but who do have a track record of racially-biased enforcement — to determine who needs a mask and who doesn’t, and who goes to jail.
Aug 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: The Nassau County legislature has passed a mask ban.
Here's what you need to know about the bill and your rights:
Even with Nassau's mask ban in place, you are not prohibited from wearing a mask. If you are wearing a mask law enforcement cannot:
❌Make you provide a doctors note proving your disability
❌Force you to disclose private health info
❌Make you take off a religious face covering
Mar 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: We are suing Nassau County over its recent executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports at county-run facilities.
Trans people who play sports need support and affirmation. They should not be political targets.
This cruel executive order sends the dangerous message that trans people don’t belong in Nassau County.
They do. Trans people belong everywhere, in their fullness, as their authentic selves, and they will not be erased. nytimes.com/2024/02/22/nyr…
Sep 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: We've reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with the NYPD overhauling how America’s largest police force can respond to protest.
Here's what that means:
During the 2020 protests for Black Lives, the NYPD brutally pepper sprayed demonstrators, struck them with batons, hit pedestrians with bicycles, and trapped protestors in closed spaces in a move known as kettling.
After one of the deadliest years on record for city jails, one would hope that @CorrectionNYC would shift towards a model of increased transparency and accountability for those in its care.
Instead, now, they're refusing to publicly report at all. thecity.nyc/2023/5/31/2374…
.@CorrectionNYC stating it will no longer notify the press or the public after the death of a detainee is an affront to those who have lost loved ones in DOC custody. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/r…
Jun 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The SRG has earned its reputation for being abusive and unaccountable, and for escalating confrontation at peaceful gatherings.
Its response to last night's demonstration for Trans Black Liberation was more of the same.
Here's what we know:
Last night, on the eve of Pride month, the NYPD and its SRG descended upon a rally in Washington Square Park for Trans Revolution.
The SRG was unnecessarily confrontational, outnumbered protesters 2:1, and made four arrests.
1/Knowing what kinds of care hospitals offer is lifesaving – it allows patients to make informed choices about where to get the health care they need. And delays in accessing care can be frustrating and dangerous.
2/But, because information about what care hospitals provide is often impossible to access, patients in cannot determine whether their local hospital provides the care they need.
Apr 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What if New York City didn't have to pit libraries against schools, or parks against homeless services?
What if we diverted one single day of NYPD spending - a whopping $29 million - to be used in ways to actually help New Yorkers?
🧵: gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…
The NYPD wildly overspends on overtime, on lawsuits, on buying dystopian surveillance technology, and expanding its footprint into areas like mental health responses.
And for all that, most New Yorkers do not feel any safer.
Sep 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
While NYC public schools are being drained of money, funding is flowing to private religious Hasidic schools.
These schools have received $1 billion+ in public money but are denying students a secular education, trapping generations of kids in poverty. nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyr…
It’s an issue not unique to New York City — in the hyper-segregated East Ramapo Central School District, a white majority took over the school board in 2009, denying a generation of public school students an adequate education. nyclu.org/en/campaigns/n…
Feb 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
NYC students: Know your rights about school metal detectors.
Thread:
👉 You have the right to decline scanning.
Declining a metal detector scan requires the school safety agent to refer the students to the principal.
Aug 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Following a ruling from the Second Circuit, we have published the database of NYPD misconduct records from the CCRB.
The database contains extensive info about decades of misconduct complaints.
We are making them public for the very first time: nyclu.org/nypdrecords
Our database contains 323,911 complaints about 81,550 different NYPD officers.
You can filter for officer records by name, incident date, officers' rank, the category of the complaint, the CCRB and NYPD finding, and more.
Jul 12, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
With #ICERaids looming, here are a few things everyone should know:
DO NOT:
-open your door to ICE
-sign anything
-lie to an ICE agent
DO:
-ask to see a warrant signed by a judge
-insist on your right to remain silent
-have someone document the interaction
-ask for a lawyer
If you or a loved one have a vulnerable immigration status, it's best to make a plan in case you encounter ICE.
Here are @UNITEDWEDREAM's recommendations on how to prep:
