New York’s governor yesterday signed “Alyssa’s Law,” a bill that had been backed for years by Jordan and Jayden Turner, both of Nyack. Their 14-year-old cousin, Alyssa Alhadeff, was among the 17 students killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, four years ago. At the ceremony yesterday, Governor Kathy Hochul said the bill encourages school districts to install silent panic alarms in their schools…
Rockland assemblyman Ken Zebrowski backed the bill in the lower house of the legislature, and said New York’s school safety plan had a gap, and the new bill fixes that…
Rockland’s New York State senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, whose hometown is Nyack, said he’s known the Turner family for years, and when Alyssa was killed, it hit him very hard…
The bill signing was overshadowed a bit because at the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s strict conceal-carry permits for pistols. Governor Hochul said the ruling was “frightful in its scope”…
Later in the day, the governor met with the mayors of the state’s six largest cities — New York City, Yonkers, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and, Syracuse, and — to determine the response and policy options they may have to counter the Supreme Court ruling.