Named after Joanna Lewis of Vacaville, whose 2011 death was initially ruled a suicide, “Joanna’s Law” is the first of its kind in the nation, establishes guidelines for law ...

Timothy and Quanzell Scholtz spoke about their family member Edward Sholtz, who died Jan. 5 at Wynn Hospital in Utica. The 22 ...

Helping protect child victims and find missing persons has been one of the areas that I’ve been proud to focus on over my legislative career. As Chair of the Assembly Minority Task Force on ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants to allow certain homeowners to add extra dwellings in their backyards, attics, and ...

Like the very messy bail reform bill passed by the state Legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the overhaul of the state’s discovery laws, also demands refinement. Gov. Hochul ...

On Friday, district attorneys from around the state — including from all the five boroughs — stood with Gov. Hochul to ask ...

New York can enforce its law banning voter dilution, suppression, intimidation, and obstruction, a Brooklyn appellate court ...

Charges of sexual abuse at the city’s juvenile detention centers have been prevalent for decades. Now, 115 new cases have ...

Lawmakers, activists, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered Tuesday at the New York State Capitol to demand that ...

Sen. Will Parkinson introduced a bill that seeks to provide emergency contraception or “morning-after pill” to rape survivors as an option. It would still be up to the rape survivors to decide ...

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit, finding the Adult Survivors Act window preempts a New ...

Assembly Member Sam Berger and Senator Nathalia Fernandez have championed a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at protecting mental health patients from sexual abuse by their providers. The ...