radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for July 30, 2026

Good morning.A major legal and political battle over law enforcement and immigration policy is escalating across New York State. The state’s newly established Office of Immigrant Trust has formally notified twelve local law enforcement agencies—including the Steuben, Cattaraugus, Broome, and Allegany County Sheriff's offices—that they must terminate their formal cooperation agreements with federal I-C-E authorities by August twenty-fifth. The mandate stems from the state’s "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act," which bans local resources from being used for federal civil immigration enforcement. However, local sheriffs are pushing back, calling the law a drastic state overreach that violates home rule, while the federal Department of Justice and New York State remain locked in dueling lawsuits over the restrictions.In education news, union leaders and state officials are demanding statewide guardrails on artificial intelligence in public schools. Following widespread community pushback, the Salamanca City School District in Western New York paused its fifty-seven-thousand-dollar pilot program featuring a humanoid A-I teaching assistant named "Sally." New York State United Teachers President Melinda Person and State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa are calling on the Board of Regents and state lawmakers to enact strict data privacy and ethical protections before any humanoid A-I technology enters New York classrooms.On the economic front, manufacturing giant Corning Incorporated is reporting major gains driven by the artificial intelligence boom. Headquartered in Steuben County, the company delivered its ninth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, posting second-quarter core sales of four-point-seven-four billion dollars. Corning announced expanded, multi-billion-dollar partnerships with tech giants Amazon and NVIDIA to scale up fiber-optic and optical connectivity manufacturing across the state and nation.And for drivers traveling across the Southern Tier, state transportation officials are warning of summer construction delays along Interstate Eighty-Six. The New York State Department of Transportation has closed the eastbound ramps at Exit Sixty-Four in Tioga County for a major ramp replacement project, with detours remaining in place through August fourteenth.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.