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.
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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.

In response, we sued -- and won.
nyclu.org/en/news/were-s…

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.
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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.

📷: @ALChildress_

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.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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:

https://twitter.com/UNITEDWEDREAM/status/1149334576508088320