{"id":36277,"date":"2020-07-29T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomos-sla-gets-40-state-workers-to-spy-on-bars-restaurants-in-nyc-area\/"},"modified":"2020-07-29T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:32:00","slug":"cuomos-sla-gets-40-state-workers-to-spy-on-bars-restaurants-in-nyc-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomos-sla-gets-40-state-workers-to-spy-on-bars-restaurants-in-nyc-area\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo\u2019s SLA gets 40 state workers to spy on bars, restaurants in NYC area"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo\u2019s SLA gets 40 state workers to spy on bars, restaurants in NYC area<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 28, 2020 |<\/span> 8:32pm <\/p>\n

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\n This may be the biggest booze-spying operation since Prohibition.<\/p>\n

Pencil-pushers from a slew of state agencies have been enlisted to go undercover to find violations of social<\/a>-distancing rules at bars and restaurants in New York City and Long Island, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

An internal email shows that the State Liquor Authority last week put out a call for volunteers from various state offices in and south of Albany to serve as spies for a new initiative spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

App<\/a>licants had to \u201cbe comfortable with field investigative work in public settings\u201d and willing to work between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m., the email said.<\/p>\n

They \u201cwould be trained and expected to walk neighborhoods in NYC and Long Island to observe restaurants and bars for compliance with reopening guidelines\u201d and \u201cnarrative reports and pictures of non-compliant establishments would be required each night,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The request has already resulted in 40 newly trained and \u201cactivated\u201d investigators from agencies including the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Taxation and Finance, an SLA spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The move more than doubled the SLA\u2019s statewide staff of 30 full-time investigators, and more than trip<\/a>led the 17 who are assigned to New York and Long Island, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear whether any of the new operatives have yet led to the issuance of any violations, which are punishable by fines of up to $10,000 each.<\/p>\n

A Democratic state senator said the stopgap measure wouldn\u2019t have been needed if Cuomo hadn\u2019t imposed a hiring freeze that\u2019s crippled state agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest problem is the shortage of staff. So here you are, and you don\u2019t have enough people to do this work and you\u2019re running around trying to crack down on bars and restaurants,\u201d the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is reality and the state has not been hiring in the past several years now. Now they\u2019re stretching the state workforce too thin.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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