Bill Text: NY A04695 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department of correctional services to collect certain data from any person admitted into certain facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to correction [A04695 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04695-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4695
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 7, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CORWIN,
CROUCH, GOTTFRIED, P. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the depart-
ment of correctional services to collect certain data from any persons
admitted into certain facilities
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 598 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The department shall continue to collect, maintain, and analyze
5 statistical and other information and data with respect to persons
6 subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited
7 to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
8 ment, assigned to a specific department program, accorded temporary
9 release, paroled or conditionally released, paroled or conditionally
10 released and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
11 institution upon revocation of parole or conditional release, or
12 discharge upon maximum expiration of sentence; (b) the criminal history
13 of such persons; (c) the social, educational, and vocational circum-
14 stances of any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional, parole and
15 conditional release programs and behavior of such persons; AND (E) PRIOR
16 INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CHILD WELFARE AND/OR JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM OF
17 SUCH PERSONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (I) PREVIOUS PLACEMENT IN
18 OUT-OF-HOME CARE, AND THE TYPE OF PLACEMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
19 TO PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE, KINSHIP FOSTER CARE, SECURE DETENTION
20 FACILITIES, NON-SECURE DETENTION FACILITIES, GROUP HOMES OR OTHER
21 AUTHORIZED AGENCIES OR FACILITIES OPERATED OR LICENSED BY THE OFFICE OF
22 CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, (II) THE APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF SUCH PERIOD
23 OF PLACEMENT, AND (III) THE AGE OF SUCH PERSON DURING SUCH PERIOD OF
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07023-01-1
A. 4695 2
1 PLACEMENT. STATISTICAL INFORMATION COLLECTED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (E)
2 OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE PUBLISHED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AND SHALL BE
3 MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. SUCH STATISTICAL INFORMATION SHALL BE
4 PUBLISHED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO PREVENT THE DISCLOSURE OF PERSONALLY
5 IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Provided, however, in the event any statis-
6 tical information on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a
7 correctional facility or facilities is collected by the department, such
8 statistical information shall contain, but not be limited to, the
9 following ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian; (iii) American
10 Indian; (iv) Afro-American/Black; and (v) Spanish speaking/Hispanic
11 which category shall include, but not be limited to, the following
12 subcategories consisting of: (1) Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3) Domini-
13 cans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
