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  • Padavan and Senate Republicans Join Richmond County DA Donovan to Unveil Domestic Violence Act of 2010

    New York State Senator Frank Padavan (Queens) and his New York State Senate Republican colleagues today joined Richmond County District Attorney Dan Donovan in Albany to unveil the Domestic Violence Act of 2010, a comprehensive effort to strengthen the State’s porous and ineffective domestic violence laws. 
      
    Among other things, the initiative would for the first time ever create a specific crime of domestic abuse in the State penal law and provide law enforcement with greater tools to stamp out domestic violence.

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  • JUMPSTARTING NEW YORK’ S ECONOMY THROUGH JOB CREATION

    Posted by Frank Padavan on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

    The economic woes facing our nation and state have placed tremendous strain and immense challenges on New York small businesses and middle class families.  Last year alone, New York State lost 270,000 jobs in the private sector and unemployment in the state and city continues to climb. For all the promise of results, the federal stimulus package has failed to yield any progress towards improving New York’s economic and job climate. 

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  • A Rocky Reform Loophole

    New York Post, Editorial

    June 3, 2009

     Weakening New York's supposedly "draconian" Rockefeller-era drug laws was always a risky proposition. At best, the reforms to the drug code signed by Gov. Paterson in April -- which go into effect next week -- symbolized a worrisome retreat from a no-nonsense criminal-justice mentality.

    At worst, the legislation, which abolished mandatory minimums for most drug crimes, threatens to turn loose scores of dangerous criminals.

    Turns out, New Yorkers had no idea.

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