Williams asks about voting among detained youth
Public Advocate Williams asks whether youth 18 and older in detention are being helped to vote. Nancy Ginsberg says ACS has held voter education events and 71 youth are registered, but she does not have the number eligible or whether they voted and will follow up.
First, there's a lot of young people who are 18 and over in detentions.
So I want to know if you are getting folks who are eligible to vote to be able to vote.
Is that happening?
We have had events to educate our young people on becoming voters.
We currently, in our current group of young people, we have 71 young people who are registered to vote.
How many people are eligible?
I don't have that figure.
I do know when the mayor came to visit us, many of the young people were very proud to tell him that they voted for him.
We can get back to you on how many are eligible.
And do we know how many of the 70, how many you said, 70?
71.
How many of them voted?
Generally, the young people who are registered do vote.
So we don't know?
I'm sorry?
We do or don't know if they voted.
Well, we have the upcoming election.
Yeah.
The last, I don't know what the number was the last time there was an election, but we can get that number to you.
Okay, I'd like to get all those numbers because there's
We've seen correlation of people civically engaged and being more productive.