INTEGRITY & EVIDENCE CENTER
This campaign publishes what it knows, what it does not know, and what would change the answer. A strong public case should survive a skeptical voter, a dispatcher, a budget analyst, and a Governor's counsel reading the same sentence.
READ THE LABEL
Bill status, text, votes, fiscal-note figures, and regular ERS tier rules link to official New York records.
The campaign believes a 25-year service-based option is fair and sustainable. That is advocacy—not an official finding.
The campaign does not fill an evidence gap with a confident slogan. It names the missing information and who can answer it.
CURRENT EVIDENCE
These statements describe the B text and Final Fiscal Note 2026-40 while official records remain unchanged.
Coverage question kept open: The bill and fiscal mechanics point to NYSLRS. The campaign does not promise that every person who performs 911 work in New York—including workers in another retirement system—is covered. The enacted law, Comptroller determinations, and individual records would control.
TIER 4, 5 & 6 TRANSPARENCY
Regular ERS rules differ by membership date and tier. This comparison keeps the Tier 6 case clear while showing how Tier 4 and Tier 5 differ—without assuming every 911 professional has the same plan.
From age 55: no reduction with at least 30 years. With fewer than 30 years, NYSLRS lists a 27% reduction at age 55.
From age 55: generally a permanent reduction, even with 30 years. NYSLRS lists 38.33% at age 55. A narrow exception applies to certain Unified Court System members.
From age 55: a permanent reduction, even with 30 years. NYSLRS lists 52% at age 55.
WHY TIER 6 STILL LEADS
Tier 6 remains the campaign's clearest regular-plan example because it shows the distance between 25 years of service and the age-63 full benefit. But A.9162A/S.7635B is not Tier 6-only. An eligible public employer must elect the benefit; covered Article 14 members would then have a separate one-year written, irrevocable election. The bill's coverage rules and NYSLRS—not tier alone—would control an individual case.
The proposal is service-based and sets no minimum retirement age. In a carefully limited illustration, 25 years of uninterrupted qualifying service beginning at 18 could be reached at age 43. That does not guarantee eligibility for any person.
Special plans, transfers, reinstatements, previous membership, certain Unified Court System service, and individual records can change the result. This comparison is not an individual pension estimate.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN PRACTICE
Trust is a process: source the claim, disclose the limit, document permission, correct the record, and preserve a clear line between personal advocacy and public employment.
A name becomes public only with verified support evidence and documented public-use permission. Written permission is the default. A vote, follow, share, meeting, review, or friendly reply is not an endorsement.
As of August 24, 2026, Casey reports approximately $70 in direct campaign expenses paid personally. The About page gives the itemized amounts, separately discloses mixed-use ChatGPT spending and untracked volunteer time, and records limited workplace-resource use without describing it as formal agency sponsorship. The campaign does not solicit monetary donations. Casey could potentially benefit only if the bill becomes law, his employer elects coverage, and NYSLRS finds him eligible.
Going forward, campaign policy bars government time, accounts, devices, nonpublic data, seals, uniforms, and official branding. The campaign does not speak for an employer unless a verified public statement says otherwise.
The letter fields run in the visitor's browser and are not sent to the campaign. Cloudflare and the hosting service may process ordinary routing data; aggregate campaign counters are anonymous, client-reported, directional, and not proof of completed letters or calls.
AI-created campaign illustrations are identified as illustrations and are never presented as a real person, incident, agency, or location. Official records and signed support evidence remain separate.
The website, letter tool, calls to action, and direct official contacts may fall within New York direct or grassroots lobbying rules. Known direct costs are quantified; mixed-use software, volunteer time, and in-kind resource questions are disclosed rather than assigned unsupported values. Fact-specific compliance review remains required before material expansion. The campaign does not claim that counsel or a state agency has certified compliance.
Core information should work on phones, with keyboard navigation, readable contrast, captions, alt text, and plain-language explanations. Spanish web copy must pass independent claim-alignment, idiomatic-language, and back-translation reviews. The campaign discloses that this process is AI-assisted—not human-certified—and holds any exact asset that has not passed the same review.
Current downloads carry a revision date. Older saved copies, screenshots, caches, and third-party shares may remain available, so readers should recheck this page and the official records before relying on an archived item.
Companion reports, journal articles, and analyses drawn from the same project or dataset are identified as related evidence. The campaign does not present them as independent confirmations merely because they appear in separate publications.
CORRECTIONS & RELEASE NOTES
Material errors should be corrected on the affected surface, recorded with a date, and carried into future copy. Questions and correction requests can be sent to contact@ny911retirement.org.
Added the 2025 New York emergency-communications findings, U.S. mandatory-overtime and burnout studies, and a dispatcher-assisted CPR systematic review. The update also identifies companion evidence reports so related publications are not presented as independent confirmations.
Added the approximately $70 direct-expense total—$52 for the campaign inbox and email service and approximately $18 for domain registration. Disclosed approximately $200 in mixed-use ChatGPT spending separately, without assigning it entirely to the campaign, and explained why no reliable volunteer-hours total is claimed.
Corrected generated-letter identity scope, qualifying-service language, Governor-form behavior, story attribution and retention notices, accessibility contrast and keyboard recovery, research context, and retiree-health scope. Added accessible signed-letter text and removed held or unreleased evidence from the public web bundle.
Replaced broad funding shorthand with a precise public record: Casey reports personally paying the campaign's monetary expenses to date; limited early workplace-resource use and reported verbal permission are disclosed separately; and the campaign does not claim formal agency sponsorship.
Added a complete Spanish reference for the generated English letter, expanded Spanish fiscal and implementation context, corrected legal and research terminology, and disclosed that the independent multi-pass review was AI-assisted rather than human-certified.
Added a regular ERS Tier 4, Tier 5, and Tier 6 comparison and stated explicitly that the bill is not limited to Tier 6.
Corrected advocacy-letter wording so it no longer implies that every eligible worker receives the same individual election.
Public copy now distinguishes verified support evidence from documented public-use permission, with written permission as the default.
PRIMARY SOURCE DESK
Campaign summaries are not substitutes for the law, NYSLRS guidance, or an individual benefit determination.