Hochul Wants More Police Surveillance. Legislators Want Boundaries.
Legislators are taking aim at a host of police surveillance tools, from undercover social media accounts to facial recognition to aerial drones.
Technology moves faster than law and politics. So we’re sort of catching up to what the technology can and cannot do.
Stark disparities in access to life-saving medication for opioid addiction persist between facilities — and racial groups.
Referencing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced legislation to prevent public agencies from naming the medically discredited condition in their reports.
New York Focus has published thousands of pages of county jail oversight records. Browse them in our database.
Backing primary opponents to progressive Democrats, the new Solidarity PAC resembles a state-level analog to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
As the relationship was coming to light, Heastie returned $5,000 in campaign cash to a labor group from which he’d recused himself.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.