Bill Text: NY J00425 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim May 5-11, 2019, as Correctional Officers and Employees Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-23)

Status: (Passed) 2019-02-27 - ADOPTED [J00425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J00425-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 425

BY: Senator GALLIVAN

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        May   5-11,   2019,  as  Correctional  Officers  and
        Employees Week in the State of New York

  WHEREAS, The  operation  of  correctional  facilities  represents  a
crucial  component  of the criminal justice system in the United States,
and correctional personnel play a vital role in protecting the rights of
the public to be safeguarded from criminal activity; and

  WHEREAS, There are over 60,000 corrections officers and employees in
the State of New York who oversee the  State's  correctional  facilities
and  are responsible for the care, custody, and maintenance of more than
77,000 inmates charged to their care; and

  WHEREAS, To carry out their responsibilities,  corrections  officers
work  under  demanding circumstances and face danger in their daily work
lives, which sometimes results in the loss of life; and

  WHEREAS, In 1984, former President Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation
5187,  which  designated  the  first  full  week  in  May  as  "National
Correctional  Officers  Week"  in  honor of corrections officers who put
their lives on the line every day to protect the public  from  dangerous
criminals  and to help prisoners work toward becoming productive members
of society; and

  WHEREAS, In 1996, Congress expanded and renamed  this  special  week
"National  Correctional  Officers  and Employees Week" in recognition of
all  those  employed  with  city,   state   and   federal   correctional
departments; and

  WHEREAS,  In accordance with the federal government's recognition of
the indispensable contributions that corrections officers make every day
to protect our citizens from harm, it is proper and  befitting  for  the
State  of New York to honor all corrections officers and employees; now,
therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M.  Cuomo  to proclaim May 5-11, 2019, as
Correctional Officers and Employees Week in the State of New  York;  and
be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.