Bill Text: NY S06438 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the office of court administration to publish annually on its website pretrial data and information related to pretrial detention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-05 - PRINT NUMBER 6438B [S06438 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06438-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6438--B 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, MYRIE, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the reporting of pretrial data by the chief administrator The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 216 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. The chief administrator of the courts shall request and receive 4 data from every court where bail decisions are made and include all 5 points of data specified in this subdivision. Such courts shall track 6 and record such data in every case to provide quarterly reports, in the 7 aggregate, to the office of court administration in a form decided by 8 the office of court administration, and to the public, in accordance 9 with the provisions of this subdivision. The division of criminal 10 justice services shall collect from all counties data related to 11 pretrial detention and include related points of data specified in this 12 section. The office of court administration, in conjunction with the 13 division of criminal justice services, shall publish such data on the 14 office of court administration's public website no later than the first 15 of March annually. Such data shall include: 16 (a) the total number of cases in the system, both open and closed 17 cases, disaggregated by county; 18 (b) the number of individuals released on recognizance, disaggregated 19 by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13240-05-0S. 6438--B 2 1 (c) the number of individuals released on conditions, specifying the 2 number of people ordered to electronic monitoring, the number of cases 3 in which the order for electronic monitoring was extended beyond sixty 4 days and the median and mean length of time individuals spent on elec- 5 tronic monitoring, all disaggregated by race, gender, county, top 6 charge, and case outcome; 7 (d) the number of individuals released on each form of bail, including 8 the median and mean bail amounts ordered, disaggregated by race, gender, 9 county, top charge, and case outcome; 10 (e) the number of individuals committed to the custody of a sheriff 11 prior to trial either on bail or on remand, including the median and 12 mean length of pretrial detention and the median and mean bail amount of 13 persons committed to such custody, disaggregated by race, gender, coun- 14 ty, top charge, and case outcome; 15 (f) the number of individuals who post bail and the median and mean 16 length of time prior to bail payment, disaggregated by race, gender, 17 county, top charge, and case outcome; 18 (g) the number of cases resulting in each disposition, including 19 acquittals, dismissals, plea convictions, or trial convictions, disag- 20 gregated by race, gender, county, and top charge; 21 (h) the rates of failure to appear and rearrest, disaggregated by 22 county, top charge, and case outcome; 23 (i) the rates of modifications to securing orders, including the type 24 and extent of any modifications, disaggregated by race, gender, county, 25 top charge, and case outcome; 26 (j) the median and mean length of time it takes for a case to reach 27 disposition (the median and mean total time period between the filing of 28 an accusatory instrument (or first court appearance where an appearance 29 ticket has been filed) and the case disposition) disaggregated by county 30 and top charge; 31 (k) median and mean amount of fines imposed by the court at the dispo- 32 sition of the case, disaggregated by race, gender, county, and top 33 charge; 34 (l) total number of people who were incarcerated due to a failure to 35 pay a fine imposed; and 36 (m) any other such information deemed necessary and appropriate by the 37 office of court administration. 38 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
