od wakroee eager SASS ese ose mene” Fea aan ed emerges THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK BLACK, LATINO AND ASIAN CAUCUS RopeRT JACKSON MARIA DEL. CARMEN ARROYO 7" Ose Nanhatn 17 Distt rane Cechar Cohar July 7,2010 Goveroe David A. Paterson The Excoutive Chamber Capitot Albany. NY 12224 Dear Governor Paterson As leaders and members ofthe New York City Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, we ‘urge you to sign into law A.11173-A/S7945-A, which would prohibit the NYPD from keeping the ‘personal information of people who are stopped and fished but nt arested or ticketed in an lector database “Maintaining the personal information ofthese individuals found to he doing noting wrong and ‘sing tin curent and future eximinal investigations, violates thee privacy and due proces rights, ain thus thei ivi bere, is already distarbing that these individuals are being subjected ko Stop-ani-frsks, but for them to be persistently treated as criminals, by being kept in this database, ‘s undemocratic, un-American and unconscionable. ‘The disroportionate numberof Black and Latino New Yorkers subjected to these top, but found to he imocent of any wrongdoing, i appalling. According 10 data from the NYPD. only one ou of ‘every ten people stopped and Fiske ae arrested or piven a summons. Blacks and Latinos represeat 80% ofall such stops, but only represent 3.4% of New York City's population, As 8 result, thousands of Blacks and Latinos are being put through a revolving door of criminality ‘withoujusifiaton. While the communities we represent want tobe safe, jus like other communities throughout our city, edo not believe safety must come at the expense of our constituents civil rights. We fully ‘upportthe Bll passed bythe New York State Senate and Assembly, and urge you to sign it law to restore te rights ofthe thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers whose names ae unjust ‘being kept in this database, Since bh foe We re 2 Abe akon Snuae Wiliams 7* District- Manhattan 45" District-Brooklyn coca Cove Chir MA p= Melis Mac-Viverito Deborah Rose Jala Freres 8" District-Manhattan 49° District-Staten Island 21" District- Queens. Convertir Tree Seon 250 Broapway, Room 1818, New York, New York 10007 | 212-341-9583