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Epstein on staffing breakdown: 29 new OLPS positions

New York City Council · May 29, 2026 · starts 2:58:19 · 39 sec

Epstein asks for detailed staffing breakdown. Wagoner confirms 29 new positions for OLPS: 11 lawyers, 10 investigators, 8 data scientists, including supervisory staff. GC gets 20 positions: 17 lawyers and 3 investigators.

Harvey D. Epstein

And so 10 investigators, a couple supervisors.

Elizabeth Wagoner

And then we've got, now let me see if I can do this.

Harvey D. Epstein

Okay.

Elizabeth Wagoner

We've got, let me see, 10 lawyers.

Elizabeth Wagoner

A couple supervisors.

Elizabeth Wagoner

And the rest are going to be data scientists.

Harvey D. Epstein

Data scientists.

Harvey D. Epstein

So they're doing data analysis for folks.

Elizabeth Wagoner

So we use our data analytics team on our class-wide cases under all of our laws to take employer data or app data

Elizabeth Wagoner

and identify it precisely to count each violation that each worker in the class experienced.

Harvey D. Epstein

And so...