Beyond Self-Exclusion
BEFORE THE PROBLEM. NOT AFTER.
FOR NEW YORK PARENTS

Sports betting needs safeguards before the problem. Not after.

We're asking New York to make early safeguards mandatory for bettors under 25, and available to everyone else. Then we take the New York model to the rest of the country.

Sign the letter
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of 10,000 parents have signed
One district at a time. New York first, then the U.S.

What we're asking for

Self-exclusion only helps after someone already knows they're in trouble and asks to be shut out. We want protections that act earlier, starting with the youngest bettors.

1

Mandatory under 25

Every bettor under 25 gets early risk detection automatically, measured against their own pattern of play.

2

Opt in at 25 and up

Adults 25 and older can turn the same protection on for themselves, any time, on any app.

3

Across every app

Protection follows the person across every licensed app: a check-in, then verified limits, then a pause, always with a way back.

WE STAND WITH

ASSEMBLYMEMBER CARRIE WOERNER

Her call for behavioral risk assessment in A.9584-A: judge risk by how someone is actually betting.

GAMING COMMISSION CHAIRMAN BRIAN O'DWYER

His position that risk assessment and intervention must apply to all operators, not one app at a time.

The letter

To Chair Brian O'Dwyer and the Commissioners of the New York State Gaming Commission:

We are New York parents. Our kids grew up playing sports and watching them. Now they carry sports betting apps in their pockets.

Self-exclusion is a last resort. It only works after someone recognizes a problem and asks for help, and by then the damage is often done. Young adults face the most risk and are the least likely to ask. We are asking for safeguards that act sooner.

We ask the Commission to:

  1. Make early safeguards mandatory for every bettor under 25. Measure risk against each young person's own pattern of play, not a single dollar threshold they will rarely reach.
  2. Make the same safeguards available to every adult 25 and older as a simple, voluntary opt-in.
  3. Apply them across every licensed operator, so stepping back on one app means stepping back on all of them.
  4. Respond in clear, graduated steps: a check-in, then verified limits, then a pause, always with a path back.

This is a balanced approach. It protects the people most at risk and respects the choices of adults.

We support Assemblymember Carrie Woerner's call, in A.9584-A, for behavioral risk assessment: looking at how a person is actually betting, so help arrives before a crisis.

We also support Chairman O'Dwyer's position that risk assessment and intervention must apply to all operators. Risk does not stay on one app, and protection shouldn't either.

We ask New York to lead. What works here can become the standard for every state and for federal law. Our children are worth it.

The undersigned parents of New York