Public Health

While legislation to legalize adult-use cannabis was not adopted until 2021, lawmakers did pass bills to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis, expunge records for low-level convictions, and regulate industrial hemp.

In 2019, NYSAC’s Standing Committee on Public Health/Mental Health called on New York State to improve upon the patchwork of local synthetic drugs regulations by enacting a comprehensive state regulatory plan.

Below are some of the resources that governments and associations have made available to raise opioid addiction awareness and boost prevention efforts across the state and nation.

Here we focus on vacancies in the office of elected county legislator in New York counties that have adopted charters in accord with the home rule provision of the state constitution.

This whitepaper from December 2018 explains the duties of coroners and MEs and explains the funding and staffing challenges they were experiencing at the time of the report’s publication.