Hochul, Albany legislature reach deal on changes to New York bail, gun laws

“These rollbacks would lead to the pretrial incarceration of more legally innocent Black and brown people charged with the lowest level misdemeanors,” a coalition of groups including Brooklyn Defender Services, Center for Community Alternatives, New York Communities for Change, VOCAL-NY, The Legal Aid Society and others wrote Friday. “It would separate thousands of children from their parents and further destabilize the lives of people who are most vulnerable.”