News — Legal Justice
Testimony: New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings
New Neighbors and the Over-Policing of Communities of Color
Criminalizing Poverty: When the Police Ignore the Law
Testimony: Allowing Adult Use of Marijuana
Criminalizing Poverty: The Enduring Discriminatory Practice of Stop & Frisk
Press Release: Wrong Information Winds Up on Background Check, Costing Client His Job
Letter to MTA Chairman Lhota on decriminalizing fare evasion on the MTA
Press Release: CSS Statement on Passage of Raise the Age Legislation
Press Release: LAC, CSS and NELA/NY File Amicus Brief with NY State’s Highest Court in Case Affecting People Who Face Criminal Record Employment Discrimination by Third Parties
Press Release: Re-entry and Legal Advocates File Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court
The Next Battle in Albany: Expungement Law
The Next Battle in Albany: Expungement Law
The Color Line in the 21st Century
Testimony: SUNY Board of Trustees May 4, 2016 Meeting
When the Cell Doors Open and They All Come Home
Public Housing: Smoke-Free Buildings With Leaking Roofs?
The lasting consequences of criminal convictions
The lasting consequences of criminal convictions
Testimony in Opposition to Proposed Changes to New York City Board of Correction Rules
Testimony in opposition to proposed changes to New York City Board of Correction rules that would limit physical contact when family, friends and loved ones visit a person at Rikers or other Deptartment of Correction facilities; would increase use of solitary confinement as punishment, and would limit incoming packages to those coming from an approved list of vendors. CSS opposes these changes in large part because they fracture family ties that are essential to a person’s successful reentry. .