Our Work
A new metric for assessing individual judges’ decisions and impacts: Reassignments to a Different Judge (RDJs), which serve as a red flag, suggesting the possibility of judicial impropriety that goes beyond getting the law wrong.
A new metric for assessing individual judges’ decisions and impacts: exceptionally punitive sentences, so severe that even appellate judges could not uphold them.
Our groups support this bill because robustly funded ethics oversight agencies are the first line of defense against corruption, misconduct, and the abuse of public trust.
Today, on behalf of Scrutinize, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic submitted Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests…
At most 6% of New York’s written criminal court decisions are available to the public online.
The decisions of NYC most carceral judges resulted in appx. 580 additional people detained and $77 million in taxpayer costs.