Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

New York State Passes Historic Police Transparency Bill

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Click to expand Image Protesters gather outside of the Queens County Criminal Court on June 8, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. © 2020 AP Photo/Frank Franklin II Police disciplinary records in New York State are one step closer to being made public. Under intense public pressure, the New York Legislature voted on Tuesday to repeal Civil Rights Law section 50-A, a 1970s law that concealed police disciplinary records from public disclosure in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly declared he will sign the bill and Human Rights Watch urges him to do so immediately. For years,…

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