Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

09/23/2026

New York’s Office of Cannabis Management says the state and Office of Court Administration have expunged approximately 300,000 cannabis records, while roughly another 100,000 records have been suppressed from background searches while awaiting expungement.

New York has expunged about 300,000 cannabis records. Here’s what expungement means, what suppression does and how to check your record.

09/22/2026

Five years after New York enacted the landmark Less Is More Act, the measure has cut the state’s parole population in half, reduced incarceration in state prisons for parole violations by 84% and sharply reduced the number of people jailed for technical violations, according to a statement issued by the Katal Center.

Five years following its enactment, New York's Less Is More Act has reduced the state's parole population by 50% and decreased incarceration for technical violations by 84%, according to analyses from the Katal Center and Unchained.

09/17/2026

Over and over, women’s clothing, hair, body parts, extramarital affairs, relationships, sexual proclivities and accusations around bad mothering appeared in their trials, even when these details were irrelevant to the crimes.

We need a legal standard that would prohibit sexism and gender bias in criminal trials.

09/10/2026

A federal judge has ruled that Border Patrol agents illegally stopped an immigrant after hearing a group of people he was with speak Spanish in a Central New York Walmart store.

The stop started in a local Walmart. A federal judge ruled the stop violated the Fourth Amendment right to be free from suspicionless seizures.

09/09/2026

“Corrections officers have been against HALT since before it was passed by the legislature … have continued to be resistant to implementing HALT, and have also continued to scapegoat HALT for any violence or the conditions in general inside the prison system,” said Bernadette Rabuy, a senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).

A New York correctional union and Republican backers are weaponizing a false narrative about solitary confinement and violence

08/31/2026

More than 500 people have been arrested here in Trump's second term.

08/31/2026

Monday August 31, 2026

08/24/2026

“It’s almost like the entire system is in solitary confinement … People are losing their minds, literally. Some people are committing su***de.

A New York correctional union and Republican backers are weaponizing a false narrative about solitary confinement and violence.

08/24/2026

The massive New Hampton project comes as officials point to a growing need for mental health treatment in New York’s criminal justice system.

08/17/2026

"Have I been Flocked? A question, but now also a website."

Have I been Flocked? A question, but now also a website.