Saying that it is a “detriment to our judicial system that there are parts of the state where there are virtually no judges of color and few women on the bench,” the state Senate Judiciary Committee chairman on Monday introduced legislation in Albany that would require the Office of Court Administration to collect, compile and publish an annual report on demographic information about New York’s judges and justices.

Brad Hoylman, a Democrat representing part of Manhattan, was joined in announcing the new legislation by its co-sponsor, Sen. Luis Sepulveda, a Bronx Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Judicial Diversity.

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