File #: Int 0439-2022    Version: Name: Requiring the mayor’s office of criminal justice to evaluate the performance of criminal justice programs that receive funding from the city.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 5/19/2022
Enactment date: 3/14/2023 Law number: 2023/034
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the mayor's office of criminal justice to evaluate the performance of criminal justice programs that receive funding from the city
Sponsors: Nantasha M. Williams, Mercedes Narcisse, Ari Kagan, Kamillah Hanks, Kevin C. Riley, Althea V. Stevens, Crystal Hudson, Shaun Abreu, Lincoln Restler, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Farah N. Louis, Diana I. Ayala, Gale A. Brewer, Justin L. Brannan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Amanda Farías, Marjorie Velázquez, Chi A. Ossé, Rita C. Joseph, Carlina Rivera , James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Summary: This bill would require the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, to evaluate the performance of organizations that receives funding from the City for criminal justice-related services, such as alternatives to incarceration, reentry services, pretrial supervised release, and violence prevention programming. A summary of such evaluations would then be required to be submitted to the Mayor and the Council annually.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 439-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 439, 3. Int. No. 439, 4. May 19, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-19-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 19, 2022, 7. Committee Report 11/4/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 11/4/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 11/4/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 439-A - 2/27/23, 11. Committee Report 3/2/23 (PDF), 12. Committee Report 3/2/23 (Word), 13. Hearing Transcript 3/2/23, 14. March 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-2-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 2, 2023, 17. Int. No. 439-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Mayor's Letter, 20. Local Law 34
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
3/14/2023ANantasha M. Williams City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2023ANantasha M. Williams Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2023ANantasha M. Williams Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023ANantasha M. Williams City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023ANantasha M. Williams City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023ANantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/4/2022*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/4/2022*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/19/2022*Nantasha M. Williams City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/19/2022*Nantasha M. Williams City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 439-A

 

By Council Members Williams, Narcisse, Kagan, Hanks, Riley, Stevens, Hudson, Abreu, Restler, Sanchez, Louis, Ayala, Brewer, Brannan, De La Rosa, Farías, Velázquez, Ossé, Joseph, Rivera and Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the mayor’s office of criminal justice to evaluate the performance of criminal justice programs that receive funding from the city

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Subdivisions (2) and (3) of section 13 of chapter 1 of the New York city charter, as added by vote of the electors on November 4, 1975, are amended to read as follows:

                     (2)review the budget requests of all agencies for programs related to criminal justice and recommend to the mayor budget priorities among such programs; [and,]

                     (3)evaluate the performance of the vendor of any contract with the office of criminal justice or the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence that requires the vendor to provide: (i) alternatives to incarceration, including programs for diversion from incarceration; (ii) services related to re-entry to the community following incarceration; (iii) services related to pretrial supervised release; or (iv) violence prevention programming. Beginning no later than September 1, 2024, and no later than September 1 annually thereafter, the coordinator shall submit a written summary of each evaluation conducted pursuant to this subdivision during the previous fiscal year to the mayor and the speaker of the council. Any such summary shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information: (i) the amount of funding received by the vendor pursuant to the contract; (ii) the number of persons to whom services or programming were provided pursuant to the contract; (iii) a brief description of the services or programming provided pursuant to the contract; and (iv) where applicable, information related to re-arrest or compliance by persons to whom services or programming were provided pursuant to the contract, including the rate of re-arrest for such persons; and

                     (4) perform such other duties as the mayor may assign.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XC/JDK

LS 8496

2/22/23