Norma Gonsalves, a former Republican lawmaker from East Meadow for nearly two decades and six years as presiding officer of ...

Long Island Democrats and civil rights attorneys are fighting back against a plan to deputize private citizens, calling the move illegal. A lawsuit filed by Nassau County Democratic legislators ...

Gonsalves was a Republican who was known as an advocate for her district and core GOP issues when she served in the Nassau Legislature.

A Democratic congresswoman from New York has expressed support for Nassau County’s agreement to allow police detectives to work directly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Tuesday, ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who vowed last year that the Garden City building would open the first of the year, blamed the state court officials for the delay.

A New York Republican county executive is being sued over a move to deputize citizens for law-enforcement efforts, with ...

Nassau County is enlisting ex-cops and detectives as special investigators to look into child abuse cases in an effort to help out the overwhelmed Department of Social Services, officials said.

Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer ...

The suit challenges the legality of the “special deputy sheriffs” program announced in March 2024 to public outcry by ...

The so-called “militia” refers to the “provisional emergency special deputy sheriffs” program Blakeman established on March 17, 2024. The program deputizes volunteer citizens who are licensed to carry ...