Public Safety
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez's approach to public safety centers investing in our most vulnerable communities to break cycles of harm. For example, in 2022, she secured nearly $400,000 in funding for Jacobi Hospital’s Stand Up to Violence (SUV) Program. The funding will add a mental health services component to the SUV Program, which already deploys outreach workers to respond to shootings to prevent retaliation, assists family members of those who have been injured or killed, and mentors at-risk youth on educational and job opportunities. The SUV program has been shown to decrease recurrence of violence by more than 50%. The Congresswoman also voted for the Bipartisan Gun Safety Bill that passed in the summer of 2022, which included language to go after those who act as organizers of gun trafficking operations and deal or sell trafficked firearms. For more on the Congresswoman’s work on this issue, please read on below.
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Representative Ted W. Lieu (CA-36), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) announced the reintroduction of the Protections and Transparency in the Workplace Act to combat sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop the reduction in force (RIF) and reorganization plans at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) impacting FDA’s San Juan Medical Products Laboratory (SJNLMP).
Congress has approved nine out of ten funding requests for community projects put forward by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), the congresswoman’s office confirmed on July 30. The various requests for the 2022 fiscal year included additional funding for Jacobi Hospital’s anti gun-violence initiative which Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, and U.S.
THE BRONX, NY - On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman urged Congress to provide nearly $400,000 to Jacobi Hospital's youth violence reduction program - ‘Stand Up to Violence.' This press conference followed a violent Memorial Day, in which more than a dozen were shot and a 15-year-old Bronxite was killed in shootings across all five boroughs.