Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as well as two local Manhattan politicians, are celebrating the signing of a law that intends to ensure long-term psychiatric help for people found mentally incapable of standing criminal trial in New York.
The “SUPPORT Act”—that’s Support and Provide Psychiatric Outreach and Rehabilitative Treatment Act—was signed into law by NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Dec. 23.
NYS Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, explained that he was spurred to develop the legislation after working with Justin Go, the father of Michelle Go, a 40 year-old Chinese-American woman who was fatally shoved into a subway train at the Times Square-42nd St. station back in 2022. Her death spurred a wave of activism from the #StopAsianHate movement…