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Thank you for participating in our forums on NYPD use of Surveillance Technology! Your feedback and comments are at the core of democratic accountability over the use of Surveillance Technology in the City. Your actions and words matter, especially in this brief window of time that we’ve been allotted to give public comments on the […]

The COVID-19 vaccines have begun to roll out across the country. That means that some employees are able to return to the workplace, even while others never left. Can your employer require you to take the COVID vaccine or is that disability discrimination? Here are some considerations for employers and employees alike as businesses struggle […]

Catcalls, following, up-skirting, a “casual” brush against your body: public sexual harassment can take many forms. While New York and other states have public harassment laws baked into their criminal codes, many women and girls don’t know what to do when they are targeted on the street. Here’s what you need to know about your […]

Sexual harassment in the video game industry has been a problem since the beginning. Gaming industry companies were also one of the first where gender discrimination bubbled into the public view in 2014’s Gamergate. But even as problems continue to go public and sexual harassment resignations grow, experts say that the changes aren’t doing much […]

  Register Now NYPD Surveillance Technology Explainer (r) [PDF] As New Yorkers, we have until February 25th, 2021  to tell the NYPD what we think about the surveillance technology tools — 36 tools like facial recognition and Shotspotter — currently in use by the department and about the policies that they have proposed to govern […]