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Jabari Brisport

New York Governor, Lawmakers To Decide If Family Court Attorneys Will Get a Raise After 18 Years

10/27/2023

New York Expands Financial Support to More Relative Caregivers

Susanti Sarkar and Michael Fitzgerald

A family court building in Albany, New York, which hears foster care cases. Photo by Hirám Duran

Relatives and family friends who step up when struggling parents can’t care for their children play an essential role in keeping countless kids out of foster care.

community investment

2/7/2023

New York Child Welfare Advocates Call on Lawmakers to Prevent Foster Care Through Community Investment

Madison Hunt and Adilia Watson

New York lawmakers, youth activists and advocates called for direct investments today in communities with high rates of foster care.

11/4/2020

Upstart Progressives Replace Longtime Justice Reformers in New York Legislature

Michael Fitzgerald

Newly elected democratic state senator for Brooklyn Jabari Brisport, and one of the borough’s newly elected democratic state assembly members, Emily Gallagher. Credit: Brisport campaign / Gallagher campaign

Voters in Brooklyn on Tuesday selected two new lawmakers to succeed some of the Statehouse’s top advocates for New York’s sweeping juvenile justice reforms from the past decade.