Middletown Ramps Up City Codes in Response to New York Criminal Justice Reform

Middletown Ramps Up City Codes in Response to New York Criminal Justice Reform
City Hall in Middletown, N.Y., on May 16, 2023. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
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During the past three years, the City of Middletown under Mayor Joseph DeStefano enacted several codes to increase local prosecutions of low-level offenses.

Among them, an amended fireworks law and a new quality-of-life code took offenses traditionally in the domain of the county district attorney’s office into the hands of city prosecutors.