Queens DA Candidates Endorse Pay Parity For Public Defenders, Prosecutors with Corporation Counsel
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“It is long past time for the city to pay the lawyers we fund to represent New Yorkers every day.”
Read MoreDA Candidates Stake Out Positions on Sex Work Decriminalization
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Candidates’ responses ranged: from a willingness to consider the issue, to a call for limited prosecution and diversion alternatives, to support for decriminalization.
Read MoreDA Candidates Clarify Stances On Cash Bail
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All call for significant reforms, some for the total elimination of cash bail.
Read MoreDA Candidates Describe Plans For Increasing Office Diversity
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In Queens, no single racial or ethnic group makes up more than a third of the population.
Read MoreFormer Queens Prosecutor Mina Malik Officially Enters DA Race
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Malik most recently served as deputy attorney general at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
Read MorePublic Defender Cabán Officially Enters Crowded DA Race
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“I am running to transform the Queens District Attorney Office after years of witnessing its abuses on the front lines.”
Read MoreCoalition Rallies to Demand 'DA Accountability' in Queens
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‘For 30 years, the Queens Criminal Courthouse has been a revolving door for people of color.’
Read MoreReform Coalition Will Announce List of DA Demands at Monday Rally
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“Our country is waking up to the role prosecutors play in mass incarceration — that movement has come to Queens.”
Read MoreDA Race Campaign Financing Clear After Tuesday’s Filing Deadline
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The state’s first campaign finance reporting deadline has passed.
Read MoreThree DA Candidates Raise Millions Months Ahead of Primary
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And there’s still at least five months to go before the primaries.
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