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caption: 'June 14, 2019<br />"I want to also make sure that particularly the most vulnerable and rent burdened communities across our state are also protected because while I do have a number of rent stabilized apartments within the communities that I represent, many of those individuals are not necessarily covered because some individuals are in a section 8 program, billing based section 8 programs and other individuals are in these sort of legal regulatory agreements within H.P.D.," said Assemblymember Latrice Walker in support of legislation that will create the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act. (<a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A08281&term=2019&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.8281</a>)<br /> ',
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Walker Votes to Ban Plastic Bags in NY
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caption: 'March 13, 2019<br />"I look forward to working with my colleagues in order to get us down the stretch so that our final budget for 2019 is one that we all can believe in and one that we all can support," said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker while supporting the Assembly Budget Proposal. (<a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=e164&term=2019&Text=Y\">E.164</a>)<br /> ',
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caption: 'January 15, 2019<br />"While we have equal protection for women, equal protection for classes which includes race, that it's time for us to act and protect all of the human rights of all other people of not only this state but to send a resounding sound to our country that so many individuals who need us to stand with them as they are going through the same injustices as we know of and that we lived through," said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker in support of a bill she helped pass to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression (<a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=0747&term=2019&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y\">A 747</a>).<br />Â ',
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Walker Works to Improve Access to Voting
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Walker Fights to Make Voting Easier
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caption: 'June 19, 2018<br />"In many instances my district was ground zero to a number of incidents where people had to be exonerated, a number of them occurred in the Ocean-Hill Brownsville section of my neighborhood, and it's not uncommon for me to have people who come into my office who said they have done 27 years and they were wrongfully convicted," said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker on legislation she helped pass that would create the State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct to ensure justice is served and provide transparency.  (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?leg_video=&bn=5285C&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A05285-C</a>)<br /> ',
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Walker Helps Pass Bill to Create the Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct
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Assemblymember Walker Fights for Bail Reform
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caption: 'June 5, 2018<br />Assemblywoman Latrice Walker introduced students and staff from the MACADEMY School of Science and Technology to the Assembly Chamber during the legislative proceedings. \"The special part of MACADEMY… is that this is a school where students are educated, inspired and advanced. It is a QK International Student Exchange Program and the Interfaith Academy by which I have the proud privilege of being a parent of one of their students that we lovely know of as Nile Anderson,\" said Assemblywoman Walker',
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caption: 'April 30, 2018<br />"We have a number of people who are living in our homeless shelter system today, who are the working poor. And they have the resources in order to purchase a home if the state would just acknowledge how important it is for us to make this investment. The Affordable Home Ownership Incorporations Bill limits the amount of a grant to non-profit organizations to build affordable homes to $40,000. The bill simply increases that amount to $75,000 in order to provide access to resources that we know is time and tested and is true," said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker while speaking at a press conference she held in support of legislation she authored to increase affordable housing grants for projects in high cost markets. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A06494&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.6494-A</a>)<br />Â ',
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Walker: Increase Grant for Affordable Housing
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Assemblywoman Walker Fights for Fair Bail
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Assemblywoman Walker Fights for Updates to NYCHA Buildings
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caption: 'January 30, 2018<br />"I stand here today to commend my voice to all of my colleagues and to congratulate my colleague in terms of introducing this resolution. We will continue in the memorialization of Wyatt Tee Walker, his life, his legacy, the gifts that he gave to mankind. I am proud to be a namesake of his and hope that I can only accomplish a modicum of all of the work that he has been able to do in his lifetime. We honor you today, Dr. Walker, it's a pleasure to be able to speak in this chamber on your behalf," stated Assemblywoman Latrice Monique Walker Mosley during the legislative resolution mourning the death of Wyatt Tee Walker, civil rights leader, pastor, and devoted member of his community. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=K00786&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">K786</a>).<br />Â ',
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caption: 'January 17, 2018<br />"One of the things that I'm reminded of about Dr. King is his work, and allowing this country to achieve the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it reminds me of the turmoil that people had to go through in order to vote," said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker on a resolution commemorating the observance of the 33nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=K00744&term=2017&Summary=Y\">K744</a>)<br /> ',
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caption: 'January 16, 2018<br />"The people in Haiti have hospitals they are rebuilding. They need hospital beds, sheets. There is a huge issue as it relates to sewage and the processing of garbage. They need garbage trucks. So, we can collectively come together to put our voices together to not just be words in the air. To actually put our thoughts into action," Assemblywoman Latrice Walker said while speaking on a resolution remembering the victims of the Haitian Earthquake on January 12, 2010. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=K00727&term=2017&Summary=Y&Text=Y\">K-0727</a>)<br />Â ',
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Automatic Youthful Offender Determinations
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Justice for all
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FDNY Engine 239 Introduction
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Brookdale Needs YOU
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Rev. Dr. Barbara Austin-Lucas
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Human Trafficking Legislation
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Local Groups Visit Albany
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Budget Priorities
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Sexual Assault Complaints
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Protecting Our Vulnerable Children
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Keeping Brooklyn Affordable for Working Families
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Advocating for Struggling Communities
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Reducing Rates of Recidivism
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Welcome to the Assembly
