
Jeongyoon Han
Capitol News Bureau Reporter at WXXI News
NY politics reporter for @WXXINews. And 12 other public radio stations. [email protected]. Prev: @nprpolitics @nhpr 🌱🍃🌷🌎🌟 Signal: jhan.76
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1 week ago |
wxxinews.org | Jeongyoon Han
Environmental advocates had hoped that this would be the year New York would pass large-scale, affordable environmental policies. But when the legislative session ended after midnight Wednesday, state lawmakers had failed to enact any of the signature bills on an ambitious agenda that sought to curtail New Yorkers’ use of fossil fuels and plastics, nor the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer.
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2 weeks ago |
wxxinews.org | Jeongyoon Han
Lawmakers are mandating more cameras in prisons and will beef up the entities responsible for overseeing the correctional system under a bill approved Thursday. The omnibus bill aimed at increasing transparency in New York’s prisons is the first major piece of legislation to pass since the recent beating deaths of two handcuffed people while incarcerated at separate upstate facilities.
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2 weeks ago |
wxxinews.org | Jeongyoon Han
A bill that would make it illegal to have sex with someone who is too intoxicated to consent could be on its way to becoming New York law in a matter of days. State law currently makes it illegal to have sex with someone who was drugged or had their drink spiked by someone else. But existing law does not deal with situations where somebody voluntarily consumes drugs or alcohol to the point where they cannot clearly express consent.
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2 weeks ago |
weos.org | Jeongyoon Han
Lawmakers are mandating more cameras in prisons and will beef up the entities responsible for overseeing the correctional system under a bill approved Thursday. The omnibus bill aimed at increasing transparency in New York’s prisons is the first major piece of legislation to pass since the recent beating deaths of two handcuffed people while incarcerated at separate upstate facilities.
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2 weeks ago |
wxxinews.org | Jeongyoon Han
Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly agreed late Monday on a set of prison reforms that would increase oversight in New York correctional facilities, months after the beating deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi at the hands of corrections officers while incarcerated.
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