Brooklyn Daily Eagle — Brooklyn Eagle Staff
PARK SLOPE — CITY COUNCILMEMBER SHAHANA Hanif on Sunday hailed the ongoing crackdown on the city’s gray-market marijuana stores, dubbed “Operation Padlock to Protect,” and reported that two unlicensed stores in her district, PB on the Slope on Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street and Flatbush Smoke Zone on Flatbush near Grand Army Plaza, had been shuttered by the Sheriff Joint Compliance Task Force.
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City Limits – By Jeanmarie Evelly
In a letter sent to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams Thursday, the NY SANE Coalition—which represents 65 community and legal services organizations—pressed her and fellow lawmakers to pass bill Intro. 210, which would prohibit the city from putting time limits on homeless shelter stays [Read More].
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle — by Brooklyn Eagle Staff
CITYWIDE — BEWARE THE LATEST text-message scam, warns Councilmember Shahana Hanif (D-39). People are getting fraudulent texts advising them they have additional or unpaid charges on parking tickets or camera violations, Hanif said in her Sunday newsletter. The Department of Finance does not text vehicle owners about parking tickets or camera violations.
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Dear District 39 Constituent,
Today, the City Council voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget. I voted no. Let me explain why.
Throughout this budget cycle, the Mayor proposed broad cuts to city agencies, which I outlined in last week’s newsletter. As a result, Council Members were largely forced to fight to restore funding for essential services rather than pushing for proactive investments.
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City Limits — By Jeanmarie Evelly
City Hall was supposed to begin reporting more details on how it removes homeless New Yorkers from public spaces, sharing data on where each sweep took place, the agencies involved, how many people were affected and the costs. But a month after the first due date, advocates and lawmakers are still waiting.
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Gothamist — By Catalina Gonella
A new report shows wide disparities in the amount of affordable housing built in different New York City Council districts — with more going up in predominantly lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods.
The third annual NYC Housing Tracker from the advocacy organization New York Housing Conference found that the city produced 14,227 units of affordable housing last year, which was the highest yearly number in recent decades.
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City Council members said renewed concerns about the safety of biometric data in the face of cyberattacks make passing the laws all the more urgent.
STATESCOOP — By Keely Quinlan
The New York City Council considered two pieces of legislation during an oversight hearing on Monday that would ban businesses like music venues, theaters and supermarkets from using biometric recognition technology to identify customers, and ban the tech in residential buildings.
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Spectrum News NY1 | By Louis Finley Manhattan
PUBLISHED 9:54 PM ET Jun. 10, 2024
Technology that can identify a person through things like facial scans or fingerprints, for some, may be a thing of the future. But for a group of lawmakers, they say it’s a problem now.
“I’m all too familiar with the negative consequences of using fear to justify excessive and bias surveillance,” Councilmember Shahana Hanif said.
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“As the Gaza Solidarity Encampments continue to grow on college campuses across the United States, I commend the masses of brave student protesters who are in-line with countless movements against war and genocide that precede their time. As a CUNY alum, I, too, exercised my right to freedom of speech and protest with peers on campus grounds, particularly to speak out against the post-9/11 Muslim surveillance program and how NYPD informants infiltrated CUNY campuses.
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