Amanda Klonsky is a research and policy fellow at the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project and a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Crown School
Gov. Kathy Hochul's trasparency initiatives include the MTA Open Data Act; state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli launched a federal COVID-19 funding tracker.
While most corrections systems have never provided much information about the spread of the virus in their institutions, lately it has gotten worse. Even less transparency is available from city and county jails and in juvenile detention facilities.