ASK THE DA: Project Safe Surrender
This month my office, together with Brooklyn clergy, the New York State Office of Court Administration, the Legal Aid Society and the New York City Police Department, will implement Project Safe Surrender, a community program designed to help individuals resolve outstanding summonses and warrants they have not addressed in a long time.
While helping Brooklyn residents to address their open warrants and summonses, Project Safe Surrender also assists them with re-entering society, without low-level crimes holding them back and by connecting them with vital services including housing, employment, job-training and education.
The program was first introduced in June 2009 at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church, and has successfully been repeated at the Antioch Baptist Church and more recently at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church.