New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverto accompanied by members of the City Council, at a press conference

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New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverto listens to a rather tall City Council member Robert Cornegy at a press conference about pending City Council legislation, in the Red Room at City Hall in New York on Thursday, July 24, 2014. They spoke about the pending "Avonte's Law" which will require the Dept. of Education to evaluates whether exit doors in school building should be fitted with alarms. The law's name references Avonte Oquendo an autistic teen who went missing in October 2013 leaving the school unnoticed through an exit. (© Richard B. Levine)

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