“The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone even after the app was deleted because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database”

Check Signal notification settings on iPhones:
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Mayor Mamdani steps back from pledge on total elimination of NYPD gang database The mayor on the campaign trail called the database a “vast dragnet” and said his administration wouldn’t use the database. But he has moderated that position since taking office.

You can’t advance racial equity while backing tools that overpolice Black & Brown youth.
We need investments, not surveillance. #AbolishtheDatabase

www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/06/mayor-mamdani...

It is PAST TIME to abolish the NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor. They got 28 million of our tax dollars in 2024. They charge people from all over the city in front of the extra white/privileged juries of Manhattan. We don't need a 6th DA for 5 boros.They are a relic & should be abolished yesterday.

In NY in 2024 we passed the Jury Of Our Peers Act to finally end the complete and lifetime ban of anyone with a felony conviction from being considered for jury service.

Gov Hochul vetoed it.

Sen Cleare and AM Gibbs are working to move it again. Join us www.juryofourpeers.org #JuryOfOurPeers

Colorado prisoners win in long fight against forced labor Plus, D.C. gears up for ranked-choice voting

In today’s newsletter: A judge orders Colorado prisons to stop using solitary confinement to force prisoners to work. Plus, many elections are happening today, and Massachusetts prisons have transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.

Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully.

A landmark reform by former Governor Phil Murphy in January will make the jury pool in New Jersey more representative of the state.

A Year Later, Incarcerated New Yorkers Are Still Paying the Price for Prison Guards’ Wildcat Strike Some of the lingering impacts: reduced family visitation days, limited recreation time, cuts to classes, and less access to required and elective programming.

One year after the New York prison guard strike, it's incarcerated New Yorkers who are suffering from its lingering impacts.

Read the stories of six New Yorkers locked up in state prisons:

Did You Just Feel That? 2.3 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Up The Hudson Valley According to the USGS, the earthquake centered near Sleepy Hollow was felt across the region. So far, there have been no reports of damage.

Whoah. WFH today and felt that earthquake, Irvington! patch.com/new-york/tar...

Happy International Women's Day I am proud of and encouraged by the countless ways that women around the world continue to display bravery and resilience in a world that often feels designed to disempower us. As one of my daughter’s favorite shirts proclaims, “The patriarchy isn’t going to smash itself.” But with the United States rapidly and dramatically going backwards on gender equality, it is hard to feel celebratory this year—particularly as the mom of a young daughter. Today, I am raising a daughter in a country where pregnant women die preventable deaths. I am raising her in a country where the comfort of powerful men is still prioritized over justice for the girls and women they harm, as the ongoing mishandling of the Epstein Files shows. I am raising her in a country where the government is pushing for legislation that would make it much harder for many women to vote. I am raising her in a country where a right wing extremist who has dined with the President of the United States openly stated that “Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact.” I am also raising her in a Congressional district that has never been represented by a woman. I hope you will help me change that, so that I can help fix the rest.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself.

www.votewelch.com

Local / County governments pushing the New York State government (read: Kathy Hochul) to do what's right and stop colluding with ICE. Here, it's Ulster County in the Mid-Hudson Valley. #ShareGoodNewsToo

Mamdani Is Getting Snowballed by His Own NYPD The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.

The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight.

hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

I don't know much about Dani Welch and it's not my district but they are primarying the ATROCIOUS Tom Suozzi who absolutely needs to be defeated.

Dani Welch is all of these things and more - as her colleague I can say she never stops fighting, has absolute moral clarity and is a hell of an excellent human with the sweetest kid you ever did see. NY-03 would be so lucky to elect her. Let's go!

Danielle Welch for Congress It isn't enough for Democrats to flip the House in 2026. We need leaders who will fight for us.

Friends, whether what motivates you is...

😇 Positive (advance ethical politics in NY-03),
😡 Negative (punish Tom Suozzi), or
🤯 Both

...you can now plug directly into @votewelch.bsky.social's campaign because her website is now live!

Watching city council committee to combat hate and for me- the issue with using cops to "keep people safe" is that NYPD DOESN'T KEEP PEOPLE SAFE + Giving NYPD ability to set up camp outside mosques which they SURVEILLED for decades is also just outrageous. More policing ≠ safety

Done. Here was my script: "This is Bright Limm, constituent in Jamaica, Queens. I urge the governor to publicly support—and commit to signing—the New York for All Act. If she does not, please know: I will most certainly be supporting her challenger in the primary instead."

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Another murder by ICE. 10 shots. Voting to fund them is a war crime in itself. It’s madness. We have no opposition party. It’s sick. Every single elected democratic from local to feds should be doing everything in their power to defund and block ICE from everywhere. #AbolishICE

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.

“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...

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.

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...

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

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

NYCC’s James Ellis speaks at a podium with a group of legislators united to protest Kalief’s law

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 @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

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

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."

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...

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…

"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...