Patronage Never Left: NY Courts Still Favor the… | New York Focus
A New York Focus investigation reveals how party officials and politically connected law firms continue to profit from court-appointed roles.| New York Focus
A New York Focus investigation reveals how party officials and politically connected law firms continue to profit from court-appointed roles.| New York Focus
As Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo put fraudulent debt collection firms on notice. He may have strengthened their hand.| New York Focus
Tens of thousands of NYC residents are sued every year for consumer debt. Many of them don’t know about it.| New York Focus
Zachary Groz is a freelance journalist based in New York. He previously served as co-editor-in-chief of The New Journal, an investigative magazine at Yale…| New York Focus
Colin Kinniburgh is a reporter at New York Focus, covering the state’s climate and environmental politics. He has worked in media for more than a decade,…| New York Focus
Our searchable database breaks down what was proposed and what made it in this year's budget among key topics like education, family policy, criminal…| New York Focus
“There’s no legal basis for what they’re trying to do,” said one legal expert.| New York Focus
Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.| New York Focus
It looked like 2025 could be a tipping point for climate action in New York. Instead, the governor is backtracking on key parts of her agenda.| New York Focus
New York’s plan to put a price on carbon could arrive in 2025. Here’s how it would work.| New York Focus
The retiree says a local rooftop solar company and its partners forged her signature to sign her up for a loan she could not afford.| New York Focus
The HALT Act overhauled New York's solitary confinement standards.| New York Focus
Sara Kielly is an investigative journalist, poet, and jailhouse lawyer whose work has appeared in Slate, Spotlong Review, the New York Daily News, Guild…| New York Focus
With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.| New York Focus
Wildcat strikes have spread to over half of the state’s prisons.| New York Focus
Robert Adams alleges that a guard sodomized him with a baton. A year-long investigation into his story uncovered a system plagued by retaliation and…| New York Focus
Citing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas seeks to legally invalidate the syndrome named in Daniel Prude's autopsy report.| New York Focus
Police training materials link the discredited “excited delirium syndrome” to synthetic marijuana use.| New York Focus
Rebecca McCray is a journalist based in New York. You can find her work in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Gothamist, The Daily Beast, The Village…| New York Focus
Chris Gelardi is a reporter for New York Focus investigating the state’s criminal-legal system. His work has appeared in more than a dozen other outlets,…| New York Focus
This isn’t Daniel Martuscello’s first crisis. An investigation reveals how his family weathered one scandal after another on their road to dominating New…| New York Focus
The HALT Solitary Confinement Act altered the balance of power within New York’s prisons.| New York Focus
After footage of the killing of Robert Brooks sparked national outcry, Governor Kathy Hochul promised to fully equip New York prisons with cameras. The…| New York Focus
Though Heastie has not publicly acknowledged the relationship, he has privately pledged to avoid conflicts of interest, New York Focus has found.| New York Focus
Daniel Martuscello III, the prison and parole agency’s new acting commissioner, is the son of an entrenched system.| New York Focus
Annucci has been characterized as an institutionalist loyal to the prison system above all else — even, at times, the law.| New York Focus
New York's only statewide newsroom dedicated to holding Albany accountable.| New York Focus
At the urging of the correction officers union, the prison agency is restricting packages to private vendors that charge steep markups and have limited…| New York Focus
With a hearing on New York’s troubled home care program set for Thursday, here are five questions we’d like answered.| New York Focus
The New York City mayor made the claim during a press conference in late July.| New York Focus
Frank Seddio is representing Jules Parisien in over 500 cases — despite the physician's history of insurance fraud allegations.| New York Focus
Whether legislators should return to Albany this year to tackle historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance has become a thorny political question.| New York Focus
Fraud and falsehoods often don’t stop debt collectors from pursuing their targets for years.| New York Focus
First-time offenders might receive community service, but penalties may be severe.| New York Focus
Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote…| New York Focus
There were 351 shooting incidents, 413 shooting victims, and 149 murders during the first half of the year.| New York Focus
Public comments are closing soon for an underwater pipeline project that sprang back to life this spring after talks between Hochul and Trump.| New York Focus
There are 1,500 families on the program waitlist in New York City alone, new state data shows.| New York Focus
Poverty rates among New York’s aging population are rising as the federal government pares back support for longstanding social service programs.| New York Focus
New York school districts are budgeted to spend $89 billion on public education in the 2024–25 school year.| New York Focus
Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.| New York Focus
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.| New York Focus
The judge suggested he'll rule that the state is violating its climate law.| New York Focus
Affordability concerns — especially housing and the cost of raising a family — are major drivers of population loss in New York state.| New York Focus
Building nuclear will test whether New York state is still capable of constructing megaprojects as it has done in the past.| New York Focus
As environmental justice groups seek to compel the state to follow its climate law, the Hochul administration is set to argue that it deserves a pass.| New York Focus
Attyx, formerly known as SUNCo, is set to lose its license to operate in the state over what regulators called “false and misleading” sales pitches.| New York Focus
The prison agency's security ranks are 4,700 corrections officers and sergeants short of what it says it needs to run every program and housing area…| New York Focus
Empower+ helps thousands of New Yorkers afford energy efficiency upgrades. The state is planning to slash funding by nearly two-thirds in two years.| New York Focus
New York’s gun shop owners are wary about the loss of federal oversight, with politicians warning the cuts will lead to increased trafficking, violence,…| New York Focus
Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.| New York Focus
The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.| New York Focus
No state pursues workers for overpaid unemployment benefits as aggressively as New York. A proposed reform is colliding with New York's own repayment…| New York Focus
Trump’s megabill gives wind and solar companies one year to put as many shovels in the ground as possible. They want New York officials to help.| New York Focus
Efforts have stalled and now face an uphill battle under the Trump administration.| New York Focus
The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.| New York Focus
Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, leaving people without…| New York Focus
New York has spent more on child care assistance in recent years, but high child care costs continue to drive families out of the state and into poverty.| New York Focus
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child…| New York Focus
Sierra Johnson is one of nearly 1,600 women who filed claims under the Adult Survivors Act alleging sexual abuse in state prisons.| New York Focus
The state has left defrauded food stamp recipients to fend for themselves. Internal agency emails point to a long-simmering effort riddled with delays.| New York Focus
New York has one of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. This year’s state budget may change that.| New York Focus
The bill package will now head to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk, and she could either sign, veto, or scale it back through amendments to the legislation.| New York Focus
Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those struggling with medical debt, but critics say their policies are poorly advertised and underutilized.| New York Focus
Documents show that six county sheriffs’ offices and two state agencies have recently included excited delirium in their training.| New York Focus
Learn the income thresholds, deadlines, and free support services that help New Yorkers shave down or sometimes completely erase medical debt.| New York Focus
The Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association recognized Chris Gelardi with its award for the year’s best state government reporting — the second year…| New York Focus
Collectors claim they serve people who don't exist, yet regulators rarely bar repeat offenders from the industry.| New York Focus
State officials said they needed more time for “stakeholder engagement” on cap and invest. But groups involved with the program have gotten crickets.| New York Focus
Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. She was previously an investigative reporter at The Lever.| New York Focus
You haven’t heard of the Working Rules group — and neither has your state Senator. It picks the fates of hundreds of last-minute bills.| New York Focus
Sam Mellins is senior reporter at New York Focus, which he has been a part of since launch day. His reporting has also appeared in The San Francisco…| New York Focus
The cuts could topple the safety net for New York’s most vulnerable and upend the state’s newly passed budget.| New York Focus
The Trump administration has dealt a blow to the state’s food bank network, which supports around 3 million New Yorkers.| New York Focus
The state will spend $8 billion to pay off its debt to the feds and increase unemployment benefits for the first time in six years.| New York Focus
A lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and any other day designated by the commissioner.| New York Focus
They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.| New York Focus
Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the first time.| New York Focus
Absent more money from the state, city officials warn that they will hit a funding cliff as early as April.| New York Focus
Men locked up in the Broome County jail describe an opioid treatment program so shoddy, they risk withdrawal, relapse, and overdose.| New York Focus
A landmark solitary confinement reform law created a new, “rehabilitative” type of isolation unit. In practice, they're often little different from the…| New York Focus
Lawmakers banned solitary confinement for people with disabilities. But the state prison agency has crafted its own policies.| New York Focus
The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.| New York Focus
With strict state regulations on the use of "segregated confinement," county jails turn to an alternative: "confinement."| New York Focus
New York’s labyrinthine "rate case" process, explained.| New York Focus
