Zeldin's “Day One” plan includes declaring a state of emergency in order to suspend bail reforms, including changes to discovery and speedy trial laws and statutes limiting the use of solitary confinement in prisons and jails.
A state trooper, Christopher Baldner, faces a murder charge after he allegedly twice rammed the SUV in which Surrency’s daughter, Monica Goods, was a passenger. Surrency is pursuing civil litigation over her 11-year-old daughter’s death on Interstate 87 in upstate Ulster County on Dec. 20, 2020.