Social Service Providers: "Leg Must Stay in Remote Session to Help Vulnerable New Yorkers"

Safe Horizon, Human Services Council, Community Service Society, Osborne Association call on Leg to address COVID-19 related needs of vulnerable populations

NEW YORK, NY (04/20/2020) (readMedia)-- On the same day that the NYS Legislature was previously scheduled to resume session, major social service providers and Common Cause/NY will hold a press conference call urging the Legislature to commit to staying in remote session to address legislation relating to the COVID-19 crisis to help the most vulnerable. So far Senators James Skoufis, Gustavo Rivera, Brad Hoylman and Assemblymembers Ron Kim, Deborah Glick, and Catalina Cruz have all called on the legislature to stay in remote session, joining the Drug Policy Alliance, Tenants PAC, and various other government reform groups.

The Albany Times Union, The New York Times, The Buffalo News, and Daily Gazette have all published editorials urging New York lawmakers to step up and continue to legislate remotely post-budget.

WHO:

Michelle Jackson, Executive Director of the Human Services Council; Michael Polenberg, VP of Government Affairs for Safe Horizon; David R. Jones President and CEO, Community Service Society; and Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY

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WHAT:

  Press Conf Call w/Service Providers Urging NYS Legislature to Stay in Remote Session
WHEN: Monday April 20, 2020 at 01:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Zoom Call, see below for link
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