Brooklyn Detention Center facility, center, sits along Atlantic Avenue in New York. Gov. Cuomo and moderate Democrats in the state Senate want to make changes to the bail law, but those suggestions have run into stiff opposition from Assembly Democrats. Photo: Bebeto Matthews/AP
As lawmakers face a fast-approaching deadline to pass the state budget, it remains uncertain whether the New York State Legislature will change a landmark law overhauling the state’s bail rules that came into effect at the beginning of 2020.
The April 1 budget deadline forces a confrontation between law enforcement agencies and more moderate legislators on one side and lawmakers who say the measure needs to be given a chance to work.
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