Mayor Eric Adams could be headed for a legal showdown with Public Advocate Jumaane Williams over Hizzoner's July 27 executive order suspending parts of a law
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams rallying on the City Hall steps against Mayor Eric Adams’ executive order delaying the implementation of a law banning solitary confinement . Monday, July 29, 2024.On Monday, the mayor again defended his actions to halt the solitary ban a day before it was due to take effect. Meanwhile, the public advocate said his office and the City Council were mulling taking the administration to court over the order.
Mayor Adams rgued his executive order is aimed at addressing safety concerns for inmates and corrections officers he says were, the federal monitor for tracking violence on Rikers Island, around the law’s implementation. He also contended his action is only a 30-day pause intended to give the administration time to figure out how to safely implement the law.
The public advocate derided Adams’ executive order as, what he considers to be, a thinly veiled attempt to avoid enacting the law indefinitely — given the fact that Adams issued it at midnight on a Saturday, shortly before it was supposed to take effect on Sunday.
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