"Providing access to government records, documents and data is our municipal responsibility. Embracing and preserving a comprehensive imprint of NYC histories, as representative of our many communities, is the mission of DORIS that I aim to uphold."
The victim told the court she believed she was going to die during the ordeal. Giving evidence behind a screen, she said: "It wasn't consensual... they have ruined my life."
The university said it selected the international law firm K&L Gates last summer to review 'allegations and concerns' regarding the school. Over more than seven months, the review team analyzed hundreds of thousands of documents and interviewed dozens of people.
"The trauma of that day continues to affect every aspect of my life," José Pablo Henriquez Sagastume, a 20-year-old Allston Car Wash worker who was detained that day, said in a statement. "We were just doing our jobs when armed officers surrounded us and treated us like criminals. No one cared who we were. No one asked anything before grabbing me."
Grayner claims there was a serious conflict of interest between the DA's office and the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury that wasn't properly addressed in 2021 and 2022, the period immediately preceding her hire.
Rhodes asserted in an Instagram post, 'Marsha's may claim to be a queer safe space, but it is nothing like that.' She described the bar's environment as quickly developing a bad reputation among marginalized staffers.
Cooper Koch, known for his role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, revealed that he struggled to get acting roles because he 'sounded gay.' His experience highlights how vocal perceptions can act as barriers, overshadowing talent.
In 2021, women held only 28% of professorships in higher education and research institutions, even though they comprised 48% of PhD students, according to data gathered from a sample of 900 EU and non-EU institutions.
President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education has created a crisis that critics long feared: leaving marginalized students vulnerable to misconduct with little federal intervention. A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan arm of Congress, paints a damning picture of how mass layoffs and the slashing of resources at the agency have significantly impacted the civil rights of students.
Since last year, more than 100 schools have ended partnerships with the PhD Project, a group founded in 1994 to diversify the pipeline of students who aspire to become business school professors. That came after the U.S. Department of Education last March announced probes into 45 universities that partnered with the group. More than a dozen of those schools have quietly reached agreements with the administration to resolve the investigations.
Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime - and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.