NATIONAL NEWS: CELEBRATING LEADER JEFFRIES
and summer, he holds “Congress on Your Corner” outdoor office hours throughout the district. At each stop, the Congressman sets up a table in front of a local post office or on neigh- borhood corners where constituents are able to meet with him one-on-one. He also hosts regularly-scheduled tele- phone town hall meetings that provide an opportunity for constituents to speak directly with the Congressman about lo- cal and national issues. Prior to his election to the Congress, Rep. Jeffries served for six years in the New York State Assembly. In that ca- pacity, he authored laws to protect the civil liberties of law-abiding New York- ers during police encounters, encourage the transformation of vacant luxury con- dominiums into affordable homes for working families and improve the qual- ity of justice in the civil court system. In 2010, Rep. Jeffries successfully led the first meaningful legislative re- form of the NYPD’s aggressive and con- troversial stop-and-frisk program. His legislation prohibits the NYPD from maintaining an electronic database with the personal information of individu- als who were stopped, questioned and frisked during a police encounter but not charged with a crime or violation. In the same year, Rep. Jeffries spon- sored and championed groundbreaking civil rights legislation to end prison- based gerrymandering in New York State. This archaic practice of counting incarcerated individuals at the location of their imprisonment, rather than their homes, undermined the fundamental democratic principle of one person, one vote. After passage of Jeffries’ leg- islation, New York became the second state to count incarcerated individuals in their home districts in census calcu- lations.
Above: Rep. Jeffries stands in solidarity with brothers in Philadelphia, PA. Below, IHQ recognizes Brother Jeffries for his thoughtful remarks to the nation in honored the late Congressman Alcee Hastings. Opposite page, Brother John L. Woods Jr., Esq. gathers brothers together to celebrate Brother Jeffries in Washington, D.C. through the Diamond Group.
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