Videos
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caption: 'June 19, 2018<br />"The legislation requires that internet service providers (ISP) obtain consent of their customers before disclosing any personally identifiable information about the customer and prohibits the internet service provider from refusing to provide service to the customer if the customer does not want to give consent," said Assemblymember Monica Wallace, who authored legislation that ISPs cannot disclose customers' personal information without express written consent. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=7191b&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.7191-B</a>)<br /> ',
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Wallace: ISPs need Customer Consent to Disclose Personal Info
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caption: 'June 19, 2018<br />"Internet service providers have really access to an unprecedented breadth of electronic personal information including your name, your address, your financial information, websites you visited, searches that you've conducted, your geolocational information, where you're located at any point during the day. And I don't believe that an internet service company that you are paying for that service, should be able to disclose that deeply personal information for commercial gain without your permission. So this legislation places control over disclosure in the hands of the customer where it belongs," said Assemblymember Monica Wallace Sponsor of <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=7191&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.7191B</a> which prohibits the disclosure of personally identifiable information by an internet service provider without the express written approval of the consumer on the Assembly floor during legislative session.<br /> ',
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Assemblymember Wallace Champions Legislation for Internet Privacy
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caption: 'May 2, 2018<br />"As a parent myself but more importantly as a teacher, I can testify to the harmful results of this over testing. I taught at the post-secondary level college students and law students who really were more focused on the grades themselves and the outcome than they were on the learning process and the joy of learning and the information that they were supposed to be absorbing," said Assembly Member Monica Wallace co- sponsor of the legislation (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A10475&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.10475</a>) that amends the annual teacher and principal evaluation system to eliminate the mandatory use of high stakes tests to determine a teacher or principal's evaluation, on the Assembly floor during legislative session.<br /> ',
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Assembly Member Wallace Fights High Stakes Testing
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caption: 'May 3, 2017<br /> <br />"Communities across New York State, including my own, rely upon volunteers who put their own lives on the line every day to save lives of those in our community… While everyone else is running away from danger, they are running toward it. The work they do is incredibly dangerous as evidence by the thousands of firefighters who are injured or killed every year," said Assemblymember Wallace as she spoke in favor of the resolution being passed for volunteer firefighters. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?term=2017&bn=K388\">K388</a><br /> ',
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Resolution Honoring Volunteer Firefighters
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caption: 'March 1, 2017<br />"I've heard a number of complaints from constituents in my community who have said that they have been waiting months for these rebate checks," said Assemblymemeber Wallace about the recent passage of legislation she co-sponsored to fix the School Tax Relief (STAR) program. The bill would ensure property taxpayers receive an immediate tax exemption through their assessors office instead having to wait for a rebate check. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A5969&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A5969</a><br /> ',
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Fixing STAR to Streamline Tax Relief
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caption: 'February 28, 2017<br />Assembly Member Monica Wallace questions Alan Lawitz, Director of the Bureau of Adult Services of the Office of Children & Family Services, at the Joint Public Hearing on Elder Abuse, about issues seniors have with bank holds.<br /> ',
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Elder Abuse Public Hearing
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caption: 'February 28, 2017<br />Assemblymember Monica P. Wallace questions Roberta Kotkin, General Counsel of the New York Bankers Association, about whether there is an internal appeal process regarding bank holds in proposed legislation dealing with caretaker financial exploitation of seniors, during a Joint Public Hearing on Elder Abuse Prevention, hosted by the Assembly and Senate Committees on Aging.<br /> ',
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Internal Appeal Process Relating to Bank Holds
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caption: 'February 27, 2017<br />Assemblymember Monica P. Wallace questions Al Cardillo, Executive Vice President of the Home Care Association of New York State, about home care shortages and potential solutions found in other states during a New York State Assembly Public Hearing on Home Care Workforce hosted by the Assembly Committees on Health, on Aging, and on Labor, as well as the Assembly Task Force on People with Disabilities.',
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Home Care Shortage Solutions in Other States
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caption: 'January 31, 2017<br />"I am pleased to announce that yesterday I helped pass legislation that would strip taxpayer-funded pensions from individuals who are convicted of abusing the public's trust; convicted of corruption. I also helped pass a joint resolution that would ensure that any outside income earned by legislators does not conflict with their legislative duties," said Assemblymember Wallace on measures she helped pass to protect taxpayers and bring more transparency in government.<br /> ',
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Fighting for Ethics Reform, Transparency, Accountability
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caption: 'January 10, 2017<br />Assemblymember Monica Wallace discusses her legislative priorities, including ethics reform, quality public schools, jobs and infrastructure. "We need to invest in our infrastructure in WNY, updating our water, our sewer, our transportation systems. Not only does that create jobs but it makes WNY an attractive place to live and work," Wallace said.<br /><br /> ',
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Legislative Priorities