A few weeks ago, Janos Marton suspended his campaign for Manhattan DA, largely over concerns that New York’s political process overstated the role of fundraising from large donors. You can read his full statement here: https://janosforda.medium.com/to-our-supporters-thank-you-for-everything-the-fight-continues-2fd742f972a0 After some reflection, our campaign decided to release this final policy document, which had…

Dear friends, I launched this campaign because policing and prisons aren’t the answer to society’s problems, and because it’s time to invest directly in the people and communities most harmed by mass incarceration. We are incredibly proud of the way we’ve organized around that vision during an immensely challenging year. …

Foreword: To understand our failed mental healthcare system, meet Luis Reyes, a 35-year-old Manhattan resident who has been in and out of Rikers since the age of 16.¹ A few months prior to his first arrest, Reyes was held at gunpoint, which may have led to post-traumatic stress disorder triggering…

Wage Theft: Protecting Workers and Holding Corporations Accountable As Manhattan District Attorney, I will use the office to radically change Manhattan’s approach to tackling wage theft and protect workers’ rights. I am running for Manhattan District Attorney to transform our approach to criminal justice. For too long we have maintained…

Foreword: The current global health pandemic and movement for Black lives have highlighted the way racism permeates all aspects of society. We cannot achieve racial or economic justice without addressing wage theft, which disproportionately impacts low-income, minority workers in America, and has only gotten worse throughout the pandemic. Luis and…

New York City has long had a police accountability problem. The Civilian Complaint Review Board (“CCRB”) has been trying to investigate police misconduct for years, to mixed success. Now that the CCRB’s greatest achievement, its vast database of misconduct allegations, is being litigated in federal court, a group of former…

UFOA v. De Blasio is a lawsuit about the publication of the police misconduct database. Janos Marton is lead counsel on an amicus brief filed with 15 former CCRB staff, in which the former staff argue that publishing the database is a matter of public interest. Identity and Interest of…

James Berish was the first person in North Carolina to go through a restorative justice process for a felony offense. In 2017, after accidentally shooting his gun through his apartment floor and hitting a sleeping child in the room below, he was allowed to participate in a restorative justice process…

Introduction I am running for Manhattan District Attorney because we need to transform our criminal justice system. Instead of relying on prisons to solve society’s problems, we must work with communities to listen to victims, stop cycles of harm, and get peoples’ lives back on track. Few societal harms are…