NYC NOW - August 21, 2024: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: August 21, 2024Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Thousands of migrant children and their parents living in New York City Department of Homeless Services shelters could ...soon face eviction. Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom is using different language to describe the situation. Meanwhile, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban is dismissing disciplinary charges against the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer. WNYC’s Bahar Ostadan reports. Plus, the New York City Department of Correction is investigating after a detainee died at Rikers Island Tuesday morning.
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Welcome to NYC Now.
Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC.
It's Wednesday, August 21st.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
Eviction notices may come soon for thousands of migrant children
and their families living in New York City,
Department of Homeless Services shelters.
But Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services and Williams Isam
has a different term.
for them. There's about 30,000 families, I think, that are on the DHS system. I don't call them
eviction notices. I call them time limits. The city already kept stays at 60 days for families
staying in shelters run by other agencies. Now families in DHS shelters face that limit to. The
State-1 office of temporary and disability assistance tells WNYC it authorized the rule change.
May Adam says the city does all he can beforehand to ready.
migrant families for their exit from city shelters.
Advocates for migrants' rights say their shift will only aggravate the city's homelessness crisis.
NYPD Commissioner Edward Abon is tossing out disciplinary charges against the department's highest-ranking uniformed officer.
W.N. Mysay's Bahar Ostadon has the story.
NYPD chief of department Jeffrey Madri has been at the center of a controversy after he intervened in the arrest of a retired police.
officer who was accused of chasing a group of boys through Brooklyn with a gun.
The city's police oversight agency found that Madri abused his authority and recommended that he
get docked 10 vacation days. Former police commissioner Kichan-Soul agreed that Madri should
be disciplined, but Mayor Adams has supported Madri throughout, and current commissioner
Caban says he agrees. The police commissioner makes the final call on all disciplinary cases
against an officer. Last year, the commissioner agreed with the recommendation.
amended discipline just over half the time.
The New York City Department of Corrections says it's investigating after a detainee died at Rikers Island.
It happened yesterday morning.
They say they've also alerted the federal monitor that oversees city jails.
Correction officials say emergency responders transported the detainee to Mount Sinai Hospital in Queens.
That was about 5 o'clock in the morning, but the detainee died.
They have not released the person's name or cause of death.
from the nonprofit Vera Institute shows it's the fifth death in a city jail so far this year.
59 and clear. It's chilly out there, increasing cloud 72 for a high today.
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