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Lawmakers work to end ‘discriminatory’ court fees impacting low-income New Yorkers

Julia Salazar

May 14, 2021

    ISSUE:
  • Judiciary
    COMMITTEE:
  • Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
Originally published in New York Daily News

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) would prohibit mandatory minimum fines for criminal and traffic offenses, assess an individual’s financial situation before imposing fines and eliminate incarceration as punishment for a failure to pay a fine or fee.

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