Charlene Jackson

BACKGROUND

• Jackson, 60, of Baldwin, is a registered Republican and is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election.
• She is special counsel to the Nassau County Department of Assessment and previously was commissioner of the Community Development Agency for Hempstead Village. She is also an adjunct law professor at Hofstra University and is of counsel to a Freeport law firm.
• Jackson graduated from Uniondale High School, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. She has practiced in New York for more than 30 years.

ISSUES

• Jackson said that if elected she would work to make pathways to affordable housing for young families and seniors, following a nonprofit approach based on shared equity that’s designed to turn vacant and foreclosed homes into affordable owner-occupied housing.
• She said she would work to keep utility costs down and increase utility accountability and government oversight.
• Jackson said criminals have a “get out of jail free” card with cashless bail and that she would look at other diversion programs and ways to hold people accountable.