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Project Safe Surrender This Weekend

Project Safe Surrender This Weekend

If you have an outstanding warrant for a minor infraction, tomorrow and Saturday you have a chance to put it behind you. Project Safe Surrender is a pilot community program that helps individuals resolve summons/warrants. There is also social assistance on hand in the areas of health, housing, employment, employment training, and education.

Brooklyn clergy will be partnering with the Brooklyn District Attorneys' Office, New York State Office of Court Administration, the Legal Aid Society, and the NYC Police Department to implement the program.

Though fliers sent out by Councilman Jumaane Williams about the event suggest people who show up will be given "favorable consideration," that's not necessarily the case, as Kings County Administrative Judge for Criminal Matters Barry Kamins explained to the Brooklyn Eagle: "The court doesn’t use that language,” Kamins said. “The court can’t promise any favorable consideration to anyone.”

The criminal court summons/warrants that will be considered include:
· Unlawful possession of Alcohol under age 21
· Consumption of Alcohol in Public
· Aggressive Solicitation
· Unlawful possession of handcuffs
· Littering
· Riding a bicycle on the sidewalk
· Making unreasonable noise
· Animal nuisance
· Failure to have a dog license
· Unleashed dog
· Spitting
· Trespassing
· Disorderly conduct
· Loitering
· Unlawfully in a park after hours
· Failure to comply with posted signs in park

Project Safe Surrender
DATE: April 22-23rd
TIME: 9am - 5pm
LOCATION 1: Mt. Pishgah Baptist Church, 760 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn
LOCATION 2: Antioch Baptist Church, 828 Green Ave, Brooklyn


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