NYC public defenders urge Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to allow vote on the Right to Know Act

“Public defenders are pushing City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito as she enters her last year in office to finally allow a vote on two controversial police reform bills.

In a letter to Mark-Viverito, nine lawyers’ groups said that the bills known as the Right to Know Act — which the speaker has blocked from the floor in a deal with the NYPD — should have a chance to move forward…”

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