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Chair Lee Questions Hotline Referral Outcomes

New York City Council · May 28, 2026 · starts 4:48:50 · 1 min 10 sec

Chair Linda Lee asks how many of the 19,800 hotline callers were successfully connected to legal services and other community supports.

Luisa Linares

And then how many of the total 14,700 callers were effectively connected to legal services, legal legal services providers, and how many of them actually received legal support if you have that?

Luisa Linares

Yeah, so just to clarify on the on the numbers, um, from FY uh from July 1st, 2025 to May 15, 2026, the hotline received 19,000 calls.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

So it's 19,830.

Luisa Linares

Um, when a caller calls a hotline, we do not collect uh PII information, so personal identifying information.

Luisa Linares

We do direct them to our legal support centers.

Luisa Linares

Overall, the legal support centers have served over 12,000 people.

Luisa Linares

Okay, and okay, so that but that doesn't just include the legal services, but maybe referring them to different community organizations for other types of support, or is this specifically just for the legal the hotline itself um provides um referrals to primarily our legal support centers for legal services, that's sort of the why it was created, but it also provides um connections to other agencies and things to that extent.

Luisa Linares

Okay.

Luisa Linares

Um okay, great.