NYS Senator Julia Salazar
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NY State Senator representing neighborhoods in Brooklyn & Queens | Chair of Crime Victims, Crime & Correction Committee | Tweets by staff 🌹
Joined April 2018
We just passed the repeal of 50-a. This police secrecy statute has been a threat to our public safety for far too long. This repeal is a victory that advocates have been fighting for for years, & it’s a critical step in meaningfully changing policing in New York #BlackLivesMatter.
@jamaaltbailey @SenatorParker @NYSenBenjamin #NYSenate Bill S8496, sponsored by Senator @jamaaltbailey, passed 40-22 (unofficial). Relates to the disclosure of law enforcement disciplinary records; and to repeal section 50-a of the civil rights law relating thereto:.
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🌹 Happy first day of the legislative session from your favorite DSA senators!🌹
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The @NYSenate just passed my bill to require that all single-occupancy bathrooms in state-owned or operated buildings be designated gender-neutral 🚽.
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💥We just passed #HALTSolitary! This monumental achievement wouldn’t be possible without the efforts led by survivors of solitary and their family members, and I am thankful for their tireless advocacy.
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We need to transition to a humane, restorative justice system, which demands that we vastly reduce the incarcerated population. Spending billions on new facilities in order to avoid enacting systemic changes is a step backward. We CAN close Rikers without building new jails.
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I was proud to join thousands of New Yorkers yesterday evening to demand an immediate ceasefire in Israel/Palestine. #CeasefireNow
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A lot has changed! Here are a few things to know:.💸 Application fees are limited to $20. 📈 Landlords are required to provide notice if they intend to raise the rent by more than 5%. 🔏 Security deposits can’t exceed 1 month’s rent.
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In his #SOTS address, Gov. Cuomo made one thing clear: he hopes to pass the buck for New York’s well-being onto the Federal government. But we will not forget that it was his decades of cutting taxes for the rich and slashing of services that left us so vulnerable to COVID-19.
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After a long night of debate, the special session has ended! Today we were able to:. ✅Extend the Eviction Moratorium to January 15th, 2022. ✅Added an additional $250 million to the NYS Rental Assistance Program. ✅Confirmed nominations to the Office of Cannabis Management.(1/2).
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With the Governor ending the State of Emergency, ‘Alcohol To-Go’ which has saved many restaurants this past year will also come to an end today. We must consider legalizing the consumption of alcohol in public spaces, and here is why. (a 🧵)
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We just sent this letter signed by 24+ NY State Senators urging the courts to issue a moratorium on evictions immediately. This is a crucial step to protect vulnerable New Yorkers from choosing between protecting their health & defending their homes during this state of emergency
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🚨IMPORTANT update for people who have been waiting more than 72 hours to hear back about their unemployment claims. The problem might be due to a glitch in the @NYSLabor website. See important information about the glitch and a step-by-step guide on how to fix it below.
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It’s time to pass the Safer New York Act, cut the NYPD’s budget, and invest in our communities and social services. #Repeal50A .
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Yesterday, the Senate passed my bill, S314, the e-bike rebate bill! This rebate would help alleviate the financial barriers to safely purchasing and using e-bikes and certain e-scooters.
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TRANSIT UPDATE 🚆: The @USDOT is sending $15 million to bring SEVEN new elevators to the Broadway Junction subway complex in East New York. Before COVID, the station served nearly 100,000 people per weekday, but remained inaccessible to riders in wheelchairs.
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NY is failing to meet its climate protection obligations. In this Op-Ed, @sarahana and I implore Governor Hochul to fulfill her mandate to build the public renewables that will dramatically reduce our carbon emissions, create union jobs, and lower bills.
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New Yorkers need a long term solution to the housing crisis created by COVID, and that solution is the COVID-19 Housing Relief For All Act. This legislation will support both renters and small landlords all across our State. It is time for us to #TaxTheRich, and Invest in our NY.
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Renters and small property owners are still struggling to pay the rent and bills. It’s urgent that we do our part in New York and act swiftly to provide them with relief. The health of our communities and future of our city depends on it.
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Along with 25 of my colleagues in the Legislature, I sent this letter to express the urgent need for and our support of a federal receivership of the jails on Rikers Island.
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Yesterday the Senate passed the MRTA. Today it was signed into law making adult-use cannabis legal in New York. It’s official!.
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I am so grateful that my team was able to intervene on one vendor’s behalf, but no one in our community should have to endure over-policing and harassment. Join me tomorrow to call for improving our transit system & creating opportunities for vendors to work free from harassment.
RALLY❗️We’re coming together to say NO to over-policing, YES to fair working conditions for vendors, and YES to subway and bus improvements!. 🗓 Mon. Nov 11th.⏰ 12PM.📍Broadway Junction Subway Stop. #NoNewCops.#FixTheSubway.#LifttheCaps
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Tonight I joined Brooklyn College’s Department of Urban Sustainability and @nycDSA for a town hall, where we discussed what it will take for New York to switch to a 100% renewable, democractically controlled, & publicly owned utility, and how legislation can help us get there ⚡️
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Join us tomorrow! Monday, 12:00PM at Broadway Junction. We’re rallying for street vendors and for our communities. We all deserve to be able to use transit and share public space without fear of being criminalized. See you there.
RALLY❗️We’re coming together to say NO to over-policing and to tell Governor Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) to cancel the 500 new cops and invest in more buses, trains and service instead! . 🗓 Mon. Nov 11th.⏰ 12PM.📍Broadway Junction Subway Stop. #NoNewCops.#FixTheSubway.#CuomosMTA
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Yesterday, the Senate passed my bill S6975, relating to sexual assault in prisons. Last March, we held the first legislative hearing on sexual assault in prisons and jails and heard brave testimony from survivors, both formerly incarcerated and staff.
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This is what reimagining public safety looks like, and it works.
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I am not in the habit of commenting, in my official capacity as state legislator, on foreign affairs beyond my jurisdiction. However, this is my joint statement with Assemblymember Emily Gallagher regarding the ongoing violence in Israel & Palestinian territories.
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Over 30+ elected officials gathered this morning to make it clear: Anything short of passing Good Cause this session fails our collective mission of housing justice for all.
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Yesterday, hundreds of renters and homeless New Yorkers rallied in Albany to say: Our state budget must include a housing plan with strong eviction protections. Any housing plan must include #GoodCause.
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Little Moo and I met to discuss the state baaah-dget 🐑
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Here is a well written piece by @ShabazzStuart on why we should legalize public consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages. The “gray area” of enforcing public drinking must be eliminated as it has led to discriminatory policing in our communities.
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We need to repeal 50-a. Police secrecy laws are a threat to public safety.
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BREAKING: There will be 2 subway pop up J&J vaccine sites located in Brooklyn this week from (5/12) - (5/16). Subway locations: .1. Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station.Hours: 8am-1pm. 2. Broadway Junction.Hours: 3pm-8pm. Riders who get vaccinated will get a Free Metrocard!
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Governor Hochul is taking the decisive action that our state needs in a difficult situation by imploring the Biden administration to work with NY to compassionately and competently welcome asylum-seekers and refugees. Work authorizations must be expedited by the federal gov’t.
@USNationalGuard Asylum seekers are looking for jobs, and employers are looking for workers – all that’s missing is the legal work status to make that a reality. The federal government must expedite work authorizations so that people can immediately begin working.
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It is infuriating that it has been 5 years since Eric Garner was killed, and still no one has been held accountable. (1/4).
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With less than one week until May 1st, New Yorkers need rent relief that leaves no home behind. That’s why my office has worked with community groups to introduce a #ReliefForAll bill: A crisis response that tenants, property owners and businesses can all get behind.
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Grateful to share that I will continue to serve as the Chair of the @NYSenate's Committee on Crime Victims, Crime & Correction for the 2023-2024 legislative session. Thanks always to our Majority Leader @AndreaSCousins for her support, guidance and leadership of our conference!.
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Today, my colleagues and I issued a joint statement calling for an end to the Governor’s expanded emergency powers. While COVID-19 has tested the limits of our state and required us to restructure our decision making, it is clear that the expanded powers are no longer appropriate
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“Vienna invites us to envision a world in which homeownership isn’t the only way to secure a certain future — and what our lives might look like as a result.”
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I stand in solidarity with the Brooklyn Defender Staff Union in their unionization efforts. This union would amplify and drastically improve the incredible and important services that @BklynDefender Services are providing to the people of Brooklyn.
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One year ago today, our movement beat the machine on Election Day in Brooklyn. Over the last year, we’ve built people power and we’ve won victories for tenants, climate justice, reproductive health, and much more.
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The criminalization of sex work doesn’t keep people safe. It just gives cops one more reason to surveil, over-police, and terrorize people with marginalized identities and people in under-resourced communities.
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Labor Day is the perfect opportunity to remind you friends and family that sex work is work👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽.
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Today we gathered outside of Queensboro Correctional Facility with families of incarcerated loved ones to urge DOCCS to end the harmful, restrictive package policy implemented this summer. The policy is making it even harder for folks to receive fresh produce and necessities.
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Price gouging allows drug vendors to dramatically increase drug prices on scarce medications, making them harder for New Yorkers to afford. It is unacceptable that New Yorkers are dying because they can’t afford medication. Today, we voted to end price gouging in NYS!.
@NYSenatorRivera @Gaughran4Senate @jessicaramos @SenatorParker @SenJoeAddabbo @NYSSenatorMRM @dianesavino #NYSenate Bill S3654, sponsored by Senator @SalazarSenate, passed 58-1 (unofficial). Relates to price gouging of medicine:.
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Inspired by Dr. King’s steadfast commitment to democracy for *all*, we have introduced S316/A412 to amend the New York State Constitution to do what should have been done decades ago—remove the prohibition on voting for those incarcerated in NY, 3/4 of whom are Black and Brown.
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In many places throughout the world open consumption of alcohol is already permitted, and a bill that I have introduced with @Bobby4Brooklyn would make it lawful for a person in NYS to consume or possess an open container of alcohol in public.
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Small landlords and tenants both know that the eviction moratorium is not a solution to our looming housing crisis. S8802, introduced by myself, and @yuhline in the Assembly, would #CancelRent and mortgage payments throughout the duration of this ongoing crisis.
NEW op-ed from small landlords in Albany. ---> Tenants & small landlords agree: lifting the eviction moratorium is premature, and not the solution to the pandemic rent crisis. @zellnor4ny @KarinesReyes87 .
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90% of New York state voters are worried about affordable housing. We have a solution to the affordability crisis: pass #GoodCause so tenants can fight back against rent hikes. #TenantsCantWait.
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This evening marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid al-Fitr. Eid Mubarak to all who observe! ☪️.
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Today I was able to take a tour of the @NYCHealthSystem Woodhull Hospital’s Women’s Health Pavilion. I am proud to announce that we have secured $3.5 million dollars for the hospital to expand the Pavilion and support services for soon to be mothers and our community at large!
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“In politics, you're actually expected to just take all the credit for the work your office does, even though that is totally unrealistic. It takes a village, really.”.
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As of today, about 140,000 New Yorkers have already received the COVID vaccine.
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Any New Yorker who wants a free meal can now get meals every Monday thru Friday at any of 400+ Meal Hubs across NYC. Anyone can pick up three free, to-go meals every day. All sites offer vegetarian & halal options. No ID required. Find a Meal Hub here:
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Today is the 31st anniversary of the ADA Act being signed into law. To this very day, the passage of the ADA Act is still one of the most significant achievements of the Disability Rights movement that we have seen in this country.
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New Yorkers need a legitimate path to exoneration. That's why I'm fighting to pass the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act this session:
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NYC’s jails killed 445 people since 2000, with a spike since 2021. We must focus on investments in real safety. Expanding pre-trial jailing by undoing bail reforms only destabilizes people and makes everyone less safe, especially those jailed.
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It is with profound sorrow that today, we memorialized the recent passing of Marvin E. Mayfield, Jr., a dear friend, a loving husband, a nurturing father and grandfather whose kindness touched countless lives. (1/2)
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I couldn’t be prouder to join my fellow socialist electeds as we stand in solidarity with the ever-growing numbers of students peacefully protesting for a free Palestine.
13 socialist elected officials across NY State are issuing this joint statement condemning the repression of student protestors & standing in solidarity with student encampments for a free Palestine:
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CUNY is facing $67 million in budget cuts to Community College programs that address food insecurities, child care, & tutoring programs. At a time where 1 in 4 CUNY students are food insecure, the City’s proposed budget cuts to CUNY are unacceptable. #NoCutsToCUNY #FUNDCUNYNOW.
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Disenfranchising voters is not an innocuous mistake, and failing to correct it is a choice. This lawsuit is especially important in Brooklyn, where the ballots of at least 16,000 voters have been disqualified due to no fault of their own.
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The @CUNY community does not deserve the countless proposed cuts and austerity budgets that they have received in recent years. This is why I am a proud supporter of the #NewDeal4CUNY.
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I am proud to announce that Bill S9114 has passed the Senate. This bill will provide desperately needed relief to many constituents in my district and all over the state. We must continue to fight for our New Yorkers, and this is a step in the right direction!.
#NYSenate Bill S9114, sponsored by Senator @BrianKavanaghNY, passed 40-21 (unofficial). Relates to eviction and foreclosure protections:.
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We’re gathering this morning to affirm that we MUST pass #GoodCause and HAVP this legislative session.
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Ending solitary confinement is the floor, not the ceiling. No person should have to endure the trauma of constant isolation and degradation. The introduction of the #EndSolitary Confinement Act by @RepCori is a much-needed step toward ending torture for those in federal custody.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) led Democrats in introducing legislation to end solitary confinement in federal prisons, jails and detention centers, saying that the practice is “psychological torture.”
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Happening now: We’re outside Key Foods on Atlantic Ave rallying for the End Predatory Court Fees Act! . No family should have to decide between food on the table or paying their court debt. #NoPriceonJustice
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It is shocking to see the Chair of the state Democratic Party propose to weaken Democrats and strengthen Republicans, just to get back at @NYWFP. It would be a betrayal of our ideals & our constituents if Democrats in the legislature allow this to happen.
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Congrats @theappealunion on forming a union! It is my pleasure to stand in solidarity with @theappeal workers. ✊🏼.
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Please see my follow-up statement on the death of Robert L. Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility.
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As of today, the NYS moratorium on evictions has been extended to August 31st.
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✅ And we amended Open Meeting Law to allow for public entities to continue meeting remotely to conduct business. Now, the real work begins as we head back to the #Greateenth District to ensure that constituents can benefit from the work we accomplished today!.
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Two nights ago, some young people apparently threw objects through a window of a building at Throop & Bartlett St, where neighbors were gathered for Rosh Hashana prayers. We need to care for each other and protect each other. This isn’t acceptable in our district or in our city.
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Today, I introduced legislation alongside Senator Rivera and AM Gallagher to create a reimbursement fund for the costs of emergency return of NYers traveling home from Israel or Palestine.
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“We can’t wait until next year to pass good cause eviction. Tenants are at a breaking point and in need of relief now. Good Cause would deliver that relief and help our members and your constituents remain in their homes.”
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The MTA is proposing to reroute the B48 away from Greenpoint as part of its Brooklyn Bus Redesign. This is a vital connection between Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, and North Brooklyn that the MTA currently proposes to remove without any adequate replacement.
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Today, the Governor signed my and @CharlesLavineNY’s bill to explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. This is a win for the students of New York.
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Failure to examine the recent history of COVID-19 in our state would be a failure to protect New Yorkers from similar tragedies in the future. That's why I've joined with @votejgr to introduce legislation that would establish. .
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Wishing everyone a restful thanksgiving. While everyone deserves to have this time to relax and spend with their loved ones, acknowledging the colonialist history of this holiday is important.
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My team joined hundreds of tenants in Bushwick today to demand tenant protections and march against displacement. We must deliver solutions for New Yorkers struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Let's get it done this legislative session.
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The loitering statute known as the Walking While Trans law has fueled discrimination in our neighborhoods, especially against Black women and trans women of color. Passing this bill will be a big step toward ending the harassment of our trans neighbors.
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Strengthening tenant protections requires that we build on the success of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act by passing Good Cause eviction. Significantly increasing IAI limits, resulting in high rent increases on rent-stabilized units, would be an unacceptable step.
NEW: 38 NYS electeds say NO to rolling back rent stabilization in exchange for a gutted #GoodCause:. @SenGianaris: "The people of this great state deserve no less than our full efforts to protect all tenants, not pit one group of renters against another.”.
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Powerful, illuminating, urgently important words from @tiffany_caban @CMShahanaHanif @SandyforCouncil and @CMAlexaAviles .
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Earlier today, Governor Cuomo signed our bill that will end Child Marriage here in NYS. The vast majority of minors who enter a marriage are teenage girls, and getting married before adulthood often has devastating consequences for them.
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Our bill also seeks to address the inequities in how the current laws are being enforced in our communities. The police tend to over-enforce public drinking laws in communities of color while turning a blind eye in more affluent neighborhoods.
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Was proud to stand with amazing Intersex rights advocates & allies fighting to end Intersex surgeries. Private hospitals such as @WeillCornell need to stop allowing these surgeries on children. No one should have their bodily autonomy stripped from them. #EndIntersexSurgery
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Yesterday, the Senate passed my bill S319, which requires that all medical students and residents in New York take part in anti-bias training.
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Transit is a basic necessity for New Yorkers: providing access to jobs, community, places of learning and worship. Governor Hochul must prioritize #FixTheMTA in her budget: freezing fares, funding frequency and making buses free.
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Yesterday, the Fair and Timely parole bill was reported through the Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime, and Correction. Endless punishment does nothing to keep our communities safe—the safest communities have the greatest resources. Parole Justice is part of the solution.
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My district office in Bushwick will be CLOSED today due to the surrounding air quality. If you need to reach us, feel free to contact our office at teamsalazar@nysenate.gov.
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This week, the Senate passed my bill to expand language access in New York’s 2020 Census outreach. In the last census, nearly a quarter of all people living in our state were NOT counted. Our hard-to-count communities deserve better, and in 2020 we will do better.
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