New Council Bill Would Ban Mass Recording of Rikers Calls by Jail Staff

New Council Bill Would Ban Mass Recording of Rikers Calls by Jail Staff

The entrance to Rikers Island on Hazen Street in Queens, Jan. 21, 2019. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Reuven Blau In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration pushed through a new rule allowing jail staff to eavesdrop on detainees’ phone calls.  Seventeen years later, a city lawmaker now wants to make it illegal again to listen to and […]