{"id":505,"date":"2024-10-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/lihba\/hon-hector-d-lasalle-submits-open-letter-to-daily-news-addressing-issue-of-diversity-on-the-bench\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:05:49","slug":"hon-hector-d-lasalle-submits-open-letter-to-daily-news-addressing-issue-of-diversity-on-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/hon-hector-d-lasalle-submits-open-letter-to-daily-news-addressing-issue-of-diversity-on-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon. Hector D. LaSalle submits open letter to Daily News addressing issue of diversity on the bench."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated Oct. 19, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legitimacy of government institutions is dependent upon a confluence of factors designed to assure the public\u2019s trust and confidence that government is representative of and working for all of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov\/\">Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a>\u00a0came to a close this week, this is an opportune moment to highlight both the impact Latinos have had on the administration of justice and their continuing underrepresentation among the New York State judiciary. In my opinion, it is uniquely important that the state judiciary not only strive to be \u201cinclusive\u201d of its entire population, but lead on this most important issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/decennial-census\/decade\/2020\/2020-census-results.html\">2020 United States census<\/a>, 19.5% of New Yorkers are of Latino heritage. Between 2010 and 2020, 64.5% of the increase of the state\u2019s population was attributed to people identified as Latino.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/latinojudgesassociation.org\/\">New York State Latino Judges Association<\/a>\u00a0reported that in October 2020 Latinos made up only 7.45% of the state\u2019s 1,275 judiciary members. Currently, the Office of Court Administration reports a slight improvement in Latino judicial representation with Latinos comprising 8.7% of the judiciary, a modest increase. This improvement, albeit small, is a reminder that the faithful use of data identifying inclusion concerns is a crucial component in examining and curing systemic exclusion from all institutions, including the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click here to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Justice-LaSalle-Daily-News.pdf\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Oct. 19, 2024 The legitimacy of government institutions is dependent upon a confluence of factors designed to assure the public\u2019s trust and confidence that government is representative of and working for all of its citizens. As\u00a0Hispanic Heritage Month\u00a0came to a close this week, this is an opportune moment to highlight both the impact Latinos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}