Surrogate parenting: Analysis and recommendations for public policy New York State Task Force on life and the law

The Judicial Council and Its Objectives. My assignment is to implement Professor Sunderland's brilliant primer on judicial councils by a more specific presentation utilizing the experiences of the New York State Judicial Council. Of the three elements that enter into a consideration of the judicial branch of government, the first—the substantive law, the law of rights and duties—is not within the province of the judicial council either in New York or elsewhere. The second element—the machinery of justice—is the principal field of the judicial council. If the council does its work well in that field, attention cannot fail to be focused upon the third and most important element—also part of a judicial council's problems—the judicial personnel.

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An Interview with Eddie Ellis

Humanity & Society ◽

10.1177/016059769802200107 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 98-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Don Goodman ◽

Maggie Smith

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Task Force ◽

New York State ◽

Think Tank ◽

York State ◽

Research Education ◽

Community Justice ◽

The Board Of Directors ◽

Law And Justice ◽

State Prisons

Edwin (Eddie) Ellis is President of the Community Justice Center, Inc., an anti-crime research, education, and advocacy organization located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. A target of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) for his Black Panther Party activities, Ellis served 25 years in various New York State prisons. While he was in prison, he earned a Masters degree from New York Theological Seminary, a Bachelor's from Marist College and a paralegal degree from Sullivan County Community College. Widely recognized as a writer, lecturer, and community activist, Ellis is credited with the successful public dissemination of the research findings of the Think Tank, a group of prisoners from Greenhaven Correction Facility which established that 75% of the prisoners in New York State come from seven neighborhoods in New York City. Eddie Ellis is a fellow of the Bunche Dubois Institute for Public Policy at Medgar Evers College/CUNY, serves on the Board of Directors of Center for Law and Justice in Albany, NY, is a member of the Drug Policy Task Force, The Vera Institute IRB, and the National Criminal Justice Commission. This interview took place in the offices of the Community Justice Center on August 6, 1997.

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Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.

ILR Review ◽

10.2307/2524284 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 606

Author(s):

George W. Brooks ◽

Ronald Goldstock ◽

Martin Marcus ◽

Thomas D. Thacher ◽

James B. Jacobs

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Organized Crime ◽

York City ◽

Task Force ◽

New York State ◽

Final Report ◽

York State ◽

City Construction

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Allocation of Ventilators in a Public Health Disaster

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1097/dmp.0b013e3181620794 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 20-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 87

Author(s):

Tia Powell ◽

Kelly C. Christ ◽

Guthrie S. Birkhead

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

New York ◽

Clinical Guidelines ◽

Task Force ◽

New York State ◽

Assessment System ◽

Ethical Framework ◽

Standards Of Care ◽

York State Department ◽

York State

ABSTRACTBackground: In a public health emergency, many more patients could require mechanical ventilators than can be accommodated.Methods: To plan for such a crisis, the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law convened a workgroup to develop ethical and clinical guidelines for ventilator triage.Results: The workgroup crafted an ethical framework including the following components: duty to care, duty to steward resources, duty to plan, distributive justice, and transparency. Incorporating the ethical framework, the clinical guidelines propose both withholding and withdrawing ventilators from patients with the highest probability of mortality to benefit patients with the highest likelihood of survival. Triage scores derive from the sepsis-related organ failure assessment system, which assigns points based on function in 6 basic medical domains. Triage may not be implemented by a facility without clear permission from public health authorities.Conclusions: New York State released the draft guidelines for public comment, allowing for revision to reflect both community values and medical innovation. This ventilator triage system represents a radical shift from ordinary standards of care, and may serve as a model for allocating other scarce resources in disasters. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;2:20–26)

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