{"id":227002,"date":"2026-05-11T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:33:24","slug":"brooks-powers-on-new-law-on-gender-motivated-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227002\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks-Powers on new law on gender-motivated violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills and Council member\u00a0Selvena Brooks-Powers discuss a new law seeking to address gender-motivated violence.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks-Powers said the law\u00a0allows survivors to file civil claims against institutions responsible for their assaults. Former Mayor Eric Adams had vetoed the bill initially.<\/p>\n<p>The law includes an 18-month look-back period for filing claims.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills and Council member\u00a0Selvena Brooks-Powers discuss a new law seeking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":["post-227002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-perez","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}