Liz’s May Community Bulletin is available! You can download it here, or view it from this page.
May 2012 Community Bulletin
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Our Town‘s Megan Finnegan reports on Liz’s forum at the CUNY Graduate Center last week, “The War on Women: An Evening Basic Training.”
Sen. Liz Krueger has long been an advocate for women’s rights in Albany, so she’s accustomed to fighting for laws that protect them. But even as a seasoned advocate, she’s especially concerned with the tenor and direction of those debates over the past several years, which is why she convened a panel to bring together people on the front lines of the battle.
Krueger was joined on April 24 at the CUNY Graduate Center by Amy Richards, writer and activist; Joe Rollins, executive officer of the Political Science Department at the CUNY Graduate Center; Shelby Knox, director of women’s rights at Change.org; and Jamia Wilson, vice president of programs at the Women’s Media Center. Each was invited to speak about what they feel are currently the biggest threats to women’s rights and how concerned citizens can combat them.
You can read the full article at the New York Press website.
Liz’s May 2012 free events list is available here! You can download it here, or view it below:
Liz Krueger’s May 2012 Free Events List
Working with a coalition of fellow elected officials and tenants’ advocates, Liz announced a victory in the fight against tenant blacklisting this week.
Some good news today for those of you who pick fights with your landlords, or who are harassed by them for no good reason: New York courts are going to stop selling your names to companies that make it harder for you to secure your next apartment.
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Basic housing court records have typically been sold to tenant screening companies that create lists, which landlords and real estate management agents use to filter out tenants. Now, State Senator Liz Krueger announced today, that information — maintained by hundreds of tenant screening companies across the country — will no longer be sold electronically, which Krueger hopes would greatly curb discriminatory practices.
You can read the full article here.
The New York Post reports on Liz’s new bill to bar employers from demanding their employees’ passwords for their personal email, Facebook, or other personal online accounts.
“Employees and job applicants shouldn’t have to cede their right to privacy as a precondition for employment, and employers that open the door to this are walking into a legal minefield,” Krueger said.
She said many job seekers justifiably fear that withholding their account passwords or log-in information could imperil their chances in an already competitive job market, while many employees fear that keeping their information private could cost them their jobs.
You can read the full article here.
Albany’s Legislative Gazette reports on the inclusion of hundreds of millions in funding for improvements to the Javits Center in the budget, despite the likelihood that the facility is being phased out:
Some lawmakers, including Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, have expressed concern over the spending of $350 million when the benefits may last only a few years, seemingly in direct contrast with Cuomo’s efficient spending efforts.
“Why are we still scheduled to spend [hundreds of millions of dollars] in expansion and renovation of the Jacob Javits Center since the governor has made clear his interest in an alternative site in New York City for conventions?” asked Krueger during a Jan. 31 joint budget hearing.
You can read the full article here.
Liz’s April Community Bulletin is available! You can download it here, or view it from this page.
I want to take the opportunity to explain what happened after midnight on Thursday morning in the State Legislature.
Late Wednesday night and Thursday morning, around midnight on the morning of the Ides of March, my Senate Democratic colleagues and I refused to support a backroom deal on redistricting that protects incumbent legislators by disenfranchising minorities, discriminating against voters from New York City and Long Island, and blatantly violating the Voting Rights Act.
