Tiffany L. Cabán
Council member, District 22, New York City CouncilRaised Rikers and city jails at five meetings.
Chairs the Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use; sits on 3 more committees
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- New York City Council · Council member
- Committee on Criminal Justice · Member
- Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use · Chair
- Committee on Public Safety · Member · until Dec 31, 2025
- Committee on Mental Health and Addiction · Chair · until Jan 29, 2026
- Committee on Land Use · Member
- Committee on Civil Service and Labor · Member
Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda
Three clips, newest first
We’re at a crossroads in the history of our country. The brutal assault on Minnesota is just the beginning, and it is our duty to protect our communities. And the Safer Sanctuary Act was designed precisely to protect New York City from the Trump administration’s authoritarianism. This legislation introduces critical expansions to our existing sanctuary city framework.Open the meeting at 45:54
Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.
Issues Cabán raised, by number of meetings
- Rikers and city jails5 meetings
- Shelters and homelessness3 meetings
- ICE and immigration enforcement3 meetings
Where Cabán sits
District 22 on the current New York City Council map
Tiffany L. Cabán sits for District 22. Click a district to open its member’s page.District lines: NYC Open Data, City Council Districts, 872g-cjhh, fetched 2026-10-30.
Every roll call, and Cabán’s other bodies
Present at 22 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council
PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call
Official roll call, from the clerk →- Committee on Criminal Justice: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
- Committee on Public Safety: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Civil Service and Labor: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Criminal Justice: present at 5 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: present at 6 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Public Safety: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Mental Health and Addiction: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Land Use: present at 12 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Civil Service and Labor: present at 8 of 11 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Disabilities: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on General Welfare: present at 2 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Women and Gender Equity: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
What they talk about
Health and behavioral health took 56% of Cabán’s speech with a checked topic
Health and behavioral health
Housing and tenants
Meetings
Every meeting where we identified Cabán’s voice
- Sep 24, 2026New York City Council1.6 min59:29
- Sep 23, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice6.4 min5:57
- Sep 18, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use15.6 min16:40
- Sep 10, 2026New York City Council1.9 min1:19:41
- Jun 30, 2026New York City Council3.0 min43:15
- Jun 25, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice8.2 min54:24
- Jun 11, 2026New York City Council2.3 min1:32:09
- May 14, 2026New York City Council2.4 min13:23
- Apr 16, 2026New York City Council1.2 min46:12
- Mar 24, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice0.5 min39:52
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- Mar 23, 2026Committee on Land Use3.3 min1:34:38
- Mar 4, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use43.4 min13:43
- Feb 19, 2026Committee on Criminal Justice6.2 min1:08:00
- Feb 18, 2026Committee on Civil Service and Labor1.9 min19:38
- Feb 12, 2026New York City Council4.0 min31:15
- Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.9 min45:40
- Jan 27, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Addiction8.9 min0:34
- Jan 7, 2026New York City Council0.4 min41:54
- Dec 18, 2025New York City Council2.2 min55:54
- Nov 25, 2025New York City Council1.2 min28:38
- Nov 19, 2025Committee on Public Safety9.4 min1:14:51
- Oct 29, 2025New York City Council2.5 min1:12:24
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged
We identified Cabán’s voice at 22 meetings across seven bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Cabán was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Tiffany L. Cabán’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Cabán said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Cabán or of New York alone.