LegislationThe CREEP Act

Let’s Pass the CREEP Act

Since late January 2025 when the CAG team announced our renewed support for New York State bill S3394/A3226 The Ceasing Repeated and Extremely Egregious Predatory (CREEP) Behavior Act, we have been hard at work gaining support from organizations, survivors, advocates, legislators, legal professionals and allies! 

Senator Andrew Gounardes (D-26) remains our champion in the Senate and is joined by Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas (D-34) to become the CREEP sponsors in their respective legislative chambers. We are grateful to Senator Gounardes’ office for heeding the need to protect all New Yorkers in authoring the CREEP Act.  

To date, we have more than 25 nationally recognized and NYS-based victim’s rights organizations that have signed our letter with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) to members of the NYS legislature urging them to pass the CREEP Act. This includes Sanctuary for Families, Safe Horizon, and the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NYSCADV), to name a few! 

We are determined to pass the CREEP Act to protect stalking victims in New York State regardless of how, why, and by whom they are being stalked. Help us bring stalking protections up to date with those available to Americans in 43 other states and make it safer to be a New Yorker.

Learn more about our successful May 6 CREEP Act Lobby Day below!

CREEP Act Lobby Day

On May 6, we organized a lobbying day in Albany to educate our lawmakers about the CREEP Act. We kicked off the day with a press conference, led by our champions of the bill, Senator Andrew Gounardes (D-26) and Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas (D-34).  Carrie spoke to the severity of harm caused by stalking and our firm’s experience working with survivors. We were incredibly fortunate to have two survivors of stalking share their personal stories – Lily Baldwin, filmmaker, dancer, and founder of Stop Stalking Us, and our amazing client James Napoli. 

Following the press conference, we met with the offices of over two dozen elected officials and dropped off literature for everybody else. At the end of our Lobby Day, we received serious new commitments from about a dozen sponsors. It was an incredible day, and we are so grateful to all the lawmakers sponsoring this bill, to everyone from all over New York who came out to Lobby Day – near and far – and to our incredible CAG Anti-Creep Creep Club.   

Since our CREEP Act Lobby Day, on May 28, 2025, the New York Senate Judiciary Committee passed the CREEP Act and it’s moving to the Senate floor — this is an incredible step in getting closer to protecting ALL New Yorkers!

Learn more about the CREEP Act Lobby Day.