Amanda Jack
@ajjack.bsky.social
she/her CUNY Law alum fighting the racist crim punishment system first as a public defender and now as director of policy at the nation's oldest and largest public defender office. NYC mom to 2 public school kids/cyclist who wants more protected bike lanes
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“I told both of my children, that they had to go ahead and to live their lives ... And to not stop living because their mom was wrongfully imprisoned, because that would kill me before anything else. That would truly break my heart." #MothersDay innocenceproject.org/news/stronge...
How This Mother Modeled Strength Despite Decades of Wrongful Incarceration
Renay Lynch not only was a source guidance for her own children but also for other women in prison.
innocenceproject.org
May 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“I told both of my children, that they had to go ahead and to live their lives ... And to not stop living because their mom was wrongfully imprisoned, because that would kill me before anything else. That would truly break my heart." #MothersDay innocenceproject.org/news/stronge...
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This is a massive story — and revelation — from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social for @nysfocus.bsky.social.
"The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny."
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
"The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny."
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang Database
For 20 years, state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they're feeding it to Donald Trump's administration.
nysfocus.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is a massive story — and revelation — from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social for @nysfocus.bsky.social.
"The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny."
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
"The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny."
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
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URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions.
Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions.
Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
We won't let @governor.ny.gov take us back to the days of coerced pleas, prolonged pretrial detention and wrongful convictions. #ProtectKaliefsLaw #DefendDiscovery
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We won't let @governor.ny.gov take us back to the days of coerced pleas, prolonged pretrial detention and wrongful convictions. #ProtectKaliefsLaw #DefendDiscovery
TY to Renay Lynch - wrongfully convicted & exonerated after 26 years of incarceration thanks to @innocenceproject.bsky.social - who was invited to speak w/ the BPHA Caucus led by Chair @solagesny.bsky.social TY for the full throated support for automatic and open discovery! #ProtectKaliefsLaw
April 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
TY to Renay Lynch - wrongfully convicted & exonerated after 26 years of incarceration thanks to @innocenceproject.bsky.social - who was invited to speak w/ the BPHA Caucus led by Chair @solagesny.bsky.social TY for the full throated support for automatic and open discovery! #ProtectKaliefsLaw
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At the BPHA Caucus press conference in the capital to protect New Yorkers, to protect #KaliefsLaw, as Hochul pushes to put more people into jail.
Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!
Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!
April 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
At the BPHA Caucus press conference in the capital to protect New Yorkers, to protect #KaliefsLaw, as Hochul pushes to put more people into jail.
Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!
Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!
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THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov's proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
March 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov's proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov' proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov' proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw
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THIS
I think the more horrifying thing to sit with is this: the every-day operations of the jail, prison, and immigration detention systems are and have been dehumanizing, and we built them, and they lend themselves seamlessly to the fascist business of stealing and caging even more people
March 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
THIS
Please read this deep dive by
@nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com
@nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Please read this deep dive by
@nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com
@nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com
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Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
Discovery Reform: Why It Matters, and Who Wants to Kill It
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to tweak reforms made five years ago. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
"The gov & all of the city’s DAs want the 2020 discovery reforms amended so prosecutors would have unilateral control over the speedy trial clock, leaving them to largely be the judges of whether their efforts to provide evidence to the defense are reasonable." www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/25/r...
Rollbacks to discovery reforms will increase unfair prosecuting in NYC: law professors
More than 80 law professors on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to categorically reject Gov. Hochul’s proposed rollbacks to New York’s discovery reforms, saying they would gut progress and see pretria…
www.nydailynews.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"The gov & all of the city’s DAs want the 2020 discovery reforms amended so prosecutors would have unilateral control over the speedy trial clock, leaving them to largely be the judges of whether their efforts to provide evidence to the defense are reasonable." www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/25/r...
Indicted felony speedy trial dismissals ("serious" cases) have remained steady since 2019, the year before our landmark discovery reform. There is no "loophole" to close; no "technical dismissals" NO ROLLBACKS. PROTECT KALEIF'S LAW. queenseagle.com/all/2025/1/1...
With discovery law rollbacks looming, coalition launches to defend reforms — Queens Daily Eagle
As lawmakers and district attorneys appear to flirt with the idea of rolling back the state’s discovery reforms, a coalition of public defense groups have joined up in an effort to protect the changes...
queenseagle.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Indicted felony speedy trial dismissals ("serious" cases) have remained steady since 2019, the year before our landmark discovery reform. There is no "loophole" to close; no "technical dismissals" NO ROLLBACKS. PROTECT KALEIF'S LAW. queenseagle.com/all/2025/1/1...
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Student debt relief is a key labor issue for legal services. Getting this bill passed would be life changing for @lasattysunited.bsky.social members in @uaw.org
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Expanding student debt forgiveness program aims to stop the bleeding in public defense, district attorney’s office
District attorneys penned a letter to Albany asking for $4 million in the next fiscal budget toward expanding the loan forgiveness program.
amsterdamnews.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Student debt relief is a key labor issue for legal services. Getting this bill passed would be life changing for @lasattysunited.bsky.social members in @uaw.org
amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/12...
amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/12...
Instead of asking for grants/revenue streams to simply make fares free or fix the trains MTA is out there getting grant money to study the "psychology of fare evasion". www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/13/m...
MTA Nabs Federal Money to Study the New Psychology of Fare Beating
Facing a behavioral shift seen since the pandemic, the transit agency is pulling out all the stops to figure out how to get people to pay their own way.
www.thecity.nyc
December 13, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Instead of asking for grants/revenue streams to simply make fares free or fix the trains MTA is out there getting grant money to study the "psychology of fare evasion". www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/13/m...
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NYU anti war students blockade Bobst Library to demand disclosure of investments and divestiture from war profiteering.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀
SRG goons = Riot Squad
Community Affairs = Intel
TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones
Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀
SRG goons = Riot Squad
Community Affairs = Intel
TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones
Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits
NYPD Legal, TARU (surveillance) are now outside the library along with SRG and Community Affairs. A self-proclaimed Zionist who says his name is Yoni is trying to get in people’s faces accusing them of assaulting him, but no one’s taking the bait.
December 12, 2024 at 4:04 PM
NYU anti war students blockade Bobst Library to demand disclosure of investments and divestiture from war profiteering.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀
SRG goons = Riot Squad
Community Affairs = Intel
TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones
Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀
SRG goons = Riot Squad
Community Affairs = Intel
TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones
Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits
Still more to do, for example can't just be 'non-violent' offenses, but definitely a start.
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social please take note: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social please take note: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Biden commutes about 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes in historic single-day act of clemency
The White House says it's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
www.pbs.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Still more to do, for example can't just be 'non-violent' offenses, but definitely a start.
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social please take note: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social please take note: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Today, the NYC Council considers Intro 606: which would subject 100k New Yorkers who ride e-bikes every day - to take their kids to school, commute to work, or pay their bills-to be “licensed” to do so. City council must REJECT this costly, ineffective bill & instead BUILD bike infrastructure.
December 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Today, the NYC Council considers Intro 606: which would subject 100k New Yorkers who ride e-bikes every day - to take their kids to school, commute to work, or pay their bills-to be “licensed” to do so. City council must REJECT this costly, ineffective bill & instead BUILD bike infrastructure.
TY @phara4assembly.bsky.social: we must INVEST in community based resources, supporting housing & supportive off-ramps like #TreatmentNotJail & stop reliance on "the revolving door of the criminal legal system & the cudgel of incarceration as our only response" www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/23/r...
November 26, 2024 at 12:41 AM
TY @phara4assembly.bsky.social: we must INVEST in community based resources, supporting housing & supportive off-ramps like #TreatmentNotJail & stop reliance on "the revolving door of the criminal legal system & the cudgel of incarceration as our only response" www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/23/r...
Organizer extraordinaire Thomas Gant from Center For Community Alternatives at my Alma mater CUNY Law speaking about excessive sentences and the need to pass #TheSecondLookAct says the harm goes beyond prison walls “the harm and hurt that is being done is to keep families from being whole again.”
November 22, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Organizer extraordinaire Thomas Gant from Center For Community Alternatives at my Alma mater CUNY Law speaking about excessive sentences and the need to pass #TheSecondLookAct says the harm goes beyond prison walls “the harm and hurt that is being done is to keep families from being whole again.”
Hey Bluesky - began twitter w/ an anon account (@brooklynPD) to criticize bail setting by brooklyn judges that I saw every day as a public defender in brooklyn, left brooklyn for manhattan, left daily court work for policy work at legal aid & now fight for system reforms w aim to tear down systems
November 19, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Hey Bluesky - began twitter w/ an anon account (@brooklynPD) to criticize bail setting by brooklyn judges that I saw every day as a public defender in brooklyn, left brooklyn for manhattan, left daily court work for policy work at legal aid & now fight for system reforms w aim to tear down systems
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🌇Wake up, NY! It’s a new day. Clean Slate goes live today.
This new law will automatically seal certain criminal records, removing barriers to jobs, housing, and more, all while helping our communities thrive.
Learn more: cleanslateny.org/faq
This new law will automatically seal certain criminal records, removing barriers to jobs, housing, and more, all while helping our communities thrive.
Learn more: cleanslateny.org/faq
November 16, 2024 at 3:02 PM
🌇Wake up, NY! It’s a new day. Clean Slate goes live today.
This new law will automatically seal certain criminal records, removing barriers to jobs, housing, and more, all while helping our communities thrive.
Learn more: cleanslateny.org/faq
This new law will automatically seal certain criminal records, removing barriers to jobs, housing, and more, all while helping our communities thrive.
Learn more: cleanslateny.org/faq