Youth Today
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2.2KNew York City’s Internet Surveillance System Needs Overhaul, Report Says
NEW YORK — While working as a monitor in the dean’s office her freshman year of high school, Alexis Lanysse spent most...
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2.8KCortland Black Lives Matter Cautiously Considers Support From Local Libertarians
CORTLAND, N.Y. — As the Black Lives Matter movement here looks to turn its public support into political momentum, local libertarians are...
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1.4KNYPD Won’t Stay in Schools Under New Budget Agreement
NEW YORK — The Surrogate’s Court in Lower Manhattan received a fresh coat of paint — albeit an unprompted one, after graffiti,...
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1.6KNew York City Public Advocate, Progressive Teacher Groups Want Police Out of Schools
NEW YORK — As a budget deadline looms for New York today, the city’s Public Advocate said he will hold up the...
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81417 Rikers Workers to Be Disciplined for Transgender Woman’s Death in Solitary
The New York City Department of Corrections will discipline 17 officers for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco, a...
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1.0KSyracuse Activists Skeptical of Executive Order on Police Reforms
The biggest promise of police reform came in Mayor Ben Walsh’s first executive order after 18 months in office. It happened on...
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1.8KDA Charges Tre’mall McGee, Teen Shot in Back While Prone, With Resisting Arrest
The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office in Louisiana plans to continue its criminal case against the 14-year-old shot in the back as...
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1.7KBlack Lives Matter Organizers In Rural Cortland County Are Tired Of Gestures
Few people downtown would look Steve Williams in the eye. Not the police officers stationed at each end of Courthouse Park. Not...
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1.0KNYPD Reforms That Ban Chokeholds, Hiding Badge IDs Pass City Council, Go to Mayor
After weeks of emotionally charged youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms to root racism out of the criminal justice system in the...
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Louisiana Law Enforcement Won’t Say Who Shot Teen in Back
It is a question that has been posed to every level of law enforcement in Louisiana. From the city of Westwego, where...
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1.3KCities in New York State Take Different Approaches to Calls For Police Change
NEW YORK — After weeks of protest across New York, state and local elected officials are still scrambling to develop plans to...
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1.7KYouth-led Protest Urges Syracuse Police to Remove Officers From Schools
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Pressure is mounting on city lawmakers to change how the Syracuse Police Department operates: The state passed two sets...
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1.7KNew York Protestors, Police Both Frustrated By Use of Force Charge
After multiple reports of police using excessive force against anti-police brutality protestors in New York and charges filed against only one NYPD...
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1.8KFoster Parent Expert Advises Support Groups, Online Training to Cope With Anxious Kids During COVID-19
John DeGarmo is the founder and director of the Foster Care Institute. He and his wife Kelly have been foster parents for...
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2.0KCoronavirus Influencing College Enrollment in Uncertain Times
Frejoel Munoz couldn’t stop smiling as he read the email. “It was such a great moment to know that I got into...
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2.0KIsolated in a Harlem Youth Shelter: One Youth’s Tale of COVID-19
First, it was just a headache. A migraine burrowing into his forehead, one that heated and cooled his body, made the room...
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3.1KNew York Homeless Youth Feel Lonely, Stuck, Isolated
First he lost his job as a shift manager at McDonald’s. Then the movie theater, the bowling alley, all the places he...
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4.9KRemote Learning Also Works for Special Education Students
His mother Susie Wong-Benjamin encourages him to take bites and chew because he prefers softer foods like spaghetti and mashed potatoes.
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3.0KConnecticut’s Child Welfare System Conscious It Will Need to Keep Pivoting
How do you check on a child who lives in a home flagged as abusive during a global pandemic? How do you...
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3.1KYouth Homeless Providers Call on New York City Officials For Plan
As a global pandemic looms over New York City, one group in particular might be getting left behind, homeless youth — a...
