2026 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing - Public Protection
February 12, 2026
9:30AM
Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, Albany

Transcript Pending
Testimony
Honorable Joseph Zayas
Chief Administrative Judge
New York State Office of Court Administration

Patricia Warth
Director
New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services

Rossana Rosado
Commissioner
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services

Daniel Martuscello
Commissioner
New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision

Steven G. James
Superintendent
New York State Division of State Police

Terence O’Leary
Acting Commissioner
New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services

Dru Rai
CIO
New York State Office of Information Technology Services

Kristin Brown
President & CEO
Empire Justice Center

Kevin Stadelmaier
President
NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Stan Germán
President
Chief Defenders Association of New York

Susan C. Bryant
Executive Director
NYS Defenders Association

Sal Curran
Legislative Advocacy Committee Co-Chair
New York Legal Services Coalition

Chris Summers
President
NYS Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, Inc. (NYSCOPBA)

Kurt Labuda
President
NYS Police Investigators Association (NYSPIA)

John D’Alessandro
Association Secretary
Firefighters Association of the State of New York

Mary Pat Donnelly
President
District Attorneys Association of the State of NY

Luba Cortes
Civil Rights and Immigration Lead Organizer
Make the Road New York

Kelsey Pirnak
Advocacy Manager
Vera Institute of Justice

Justin Harrison
Senior Policy Counsel
ACLU of New York

Jennifer Scaife
Executive Director
The Correctional Association of New York

Serena Martin
Executive Director
New Hour LI

Alyssa Bradley
Director, Policy & Business Development
Center for Employment Opportunities

Jose Saldana
Director
RAPP Campaign

Thomas Gant
Community Organizer
Center for Community Alternatives

Elena Sassower
Director
Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc.

Written Testimony
#HALTsolitary Campaign

Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York

Americans Against Qualified Immunity

Autism Learning Partners (ALP)

Build Up Justice NYC (BUJNYC)

Catholic Migration Services (“CMS”)

Center for Elder Law & Justice (“CELJ”)

Center for Justice Innovation

Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Common Cause New York

Creek End Sustainability Solutions, LLC

Elizabeth M. Perez

End Prison Violence Campaign

Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, Inc.

Her Justice

Immigrant Children Advocates’ Relief Effort (ICARE)

Innocence Project

IOLA Fund of the State of New York

Julie Farrar

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

Lawyers Alliance for New York

League of Women Voters of New York State

Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc.

Legal Aid Society

Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights

Mobilization for Justice

MT Returnables

New Economy Project

Neighbors Link

NYC Youth Justice Provider Coalition

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)

New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (“COELIG”)

New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct

New York State Defenders Association, Inc.

New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services

New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF)

New York State Supreme Court Officers Association, Inc.

No Price on Justice Coalition

Osborne Association

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York

Pro Bono Net

Project Guardianship

Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Organizations

Rural Law Center of New York, Inc.

Stop Abuse Campaign

TakeRoot Justice

The Legal Project

Trauma Focused Recidivism Reduction Project

Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC) of the Capital District, Inc.

UJA-Federation of New York

Vera Institute of Justice (Vera)

Volunteer Lawyers Project of CNY, Inc.