NYPD installs ‘pumping pods’ in headquarters after lawsuit
By: Thomas Tracy & Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News
NEW YORK — The NYPD has installed two “pumping pods” at its headquarters after complaints and legal challenges from cops who say they have no clean space to pump breast milk on the job.
After a class-action lawsuit and a joint complaint by five mothers claiming a lack of adequate space, the pods have been set up at 1 Police Plaza in lower Manhattan. If they’re a success, the department plans to install them at other police facilities around the city.
The pods, built by a Vermont company called Mamava, are freestanding rooms where mothers can express milk in a clean and private setting. They’re equipped with benches and electrical outlets and can be locked from the inside.
