Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
QUESTION
How do people in upstate locations access legal services and what is the Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations' role in it?
3:16:58
·
44 sec
The state funds $20 million for legal and case management support, facilitating access to legal services for people in upstate hotels, with the Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO) coordinating.
- The state provides $20 million for legal and case management support in upstate hotels.
- The funding is aimed at helping individuals in upstate locations access legal services.
- The Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO) is involved in coordinating this effort.
- OASO staff coordinates with upstate services to ensure integration into their shelters and access to necessary support.
Alexa Avilés
3:16:58
How are people in upstate locations accessing legal services?
Molly Schaeffer
3:17:04
So the state through their 20,000,000 funding of I think it was they funded 20,000,000 for legal and case management support, specifically for our upstate hotels.
Alexa Avilés
3:17:21
Are you involved in that coordination?
3:17:23
Or
Molly Schaeffer
3:17:23
I mean, yes, our staff has to be because those folks are coming into our shelters.
3:17:28
So our staff is coordinated with them to make sure that they have a poor great access.
3:17:42
Alright.