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6/17/2020

Youth Services Workers Implore De Blasio to Restore Summer Programs

Chronicle of Social Change staff reports

Hoping to capitalize on mounting political pressure to defund the New York Police Department, nearly 2,000 of New York City’s youth services workers are calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to reverse his plan to cut $175 million from the city’s youth-oriented summer programs, which serve more than 175,000 youth.

9/5/2019

Here’s What’s Happening to New York City’s 16 year-olds After Cuomo’s Justice Reform

Michael Fitzgerald

Last October, the State of New York began treating most 16-year-olds as juveniles in the eyes of the criminal justice system. In New York City, that change appears to have coincided with a steep drop in felony arrests, according to previously unpublished state data reviewed by The Imprint.

7/31/2019

As New York Raises The Age, Youth Arrests Fall

Abe Kenmore

Since the implementation of New York’s Raise the Age (RTA) law in October, not much has changed for upstate Jefferson County. While 16-year-olds who would have previously been charged in adult court are now being tried as juvenile delinquents, where they face lesser sentences, there have not been many of them.

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Youth Services Workers Implore De Blasio to Restore Summer Programs

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As New York Raises The Age, Youth Arrests Fall

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