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Int 0151-2024
| * | Tiffany Cabán | | | The terms “inmate,” “prisoner,” and “incarcerated individual” and other similar terminology as used therein. | Introduction | This bill would replace the terms “inmate” and “prisoner,” as well as “incarcerated individual,” with person-first language (PFL) such as “persons incarcerated” and “persons in custody” throughout the City Charter, the Administrative Code, the Plumbing Code, and the Building Code. PFL is a linguistic prescription that emphasizes personhood over status-saturated identifiers. This law would seek to eliminate conscious and subconscious dehumanization associated with the terms “inmate” and “prisoner.” Notably, this is a stylistic modification that does not impact the substance of modified sections. | | |
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Int 0152-2024
| * | Tiffany Cabán | | | Extending the minimum duration of and updating other requirements pertaining to the task force created to address policies related to the treatment and housing of transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals in the custody of th | Introduction | This bill would amend Local Law 145 of 2019, which established a task force to address policies related to the treatment and housing of transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals in the custody of the Department of Correction. The bill would amend the minimum duration date of the task force to be one year after the issuance of the fifth annual task force report, require that the task force self-elect a chair, require a Speaker appointee instead of a Council appointee as a task force member, and provide for ways that the Department of Correction and Correctional Health Services must substantively participate in the task force. The task force would be required to elect a chair within 90 days of the effective date of this bill. This bill would also make various amendments to update and clarify language. | | |
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Int 0206-2024
| * | Shahana K. Hanif | | Proposed Int. No. 206-A | Requiring correction officers to carry and administer opioid antagonists while on duty and to receive related training. | Introduction | This bill would require the department of correction to provide annual training to all correction officers on the proper use of opioid antagonists, as well as to individuals who are incarcerated who request it, and mandate that correction officers carry opioid antagonists on their person while on duty. The bill would also mandate that correction officers administer opioid antagonists to individuals that are incarcerated in accordance with the training provided by the department, and would require the department to post a report on the number of correction officers and individuals who are incarcerated that have been trained on administering opioid antagonists, as well as the number of nonfatal overdoses and suspected nonfatal overdose. | | |
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Int 0412-2024
| * | Lincoln Restler | | | Notifying emergency contacts and attorney of record when an individual in custody attempts suicide, is hospitalized, or is seriously injured. | Introduction | This bill would require Correctional Health Services (“CHS”) to solicit authorization from an individual in custody of the Department of Correction to contact their attorney of record and emergency contacts if the individual attempts suicide, is hospitalized, or is seriously injured. Upon request by the individual, CHS would be required to ascertain the individual’s attorney of record in order to obtain the authorization. Additionally, when an incarcerated individual attempts suicide, is hospitalized, or is seriously injured, CHS would be required to notify parties authorized by the individual to receive this information within 1 hour of CHS confirming the suicide attempt, making a determination that hospitalization is necessary, or making a determination that the injury is serious. | | |
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Int 0420-2024
| * | Carlina Rivera | | | Establishing a program for child visitors of department of correction facilities. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Correction (Department) to establish a child visitor program for the purpose of improving the experience of child visitors of Department facilities, and would require annual reporting on the status of the program. | | |
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Int 0423-2024
| * | Carlina Rivera | | | Procedures following the death of an individual in custody of the department of correction and a report on compassionate release. | Introduction | This bill would establish procedures for the Department of Correction (DOC), Correctional Health Services (CHS), and the Board of Correction (BOC) to follow after an individual dies in DOC custody. DOC would be required to notify the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the deceased’s defense attorney, BOC, and the public. DOC would be required to provide all relevant records to BOC for investigation. DOC, CHS, and BOC would be required to investigate every death and issue reports. DOC and CHS would be required to respond to recommendations contained in reports from BOC and the Department of Investigation. DOC would be required to provide regular updates on the status of any staff misconduct cases related to the circumstances that contributed to an individual’s death. This bill would also establish a Jail Death Review Board to examine systemic issues that contributed to deaths in custody. DOC would also be required to report on compassionate releases. | | |
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Int 0625-2024
| * | Keith Powers | | | Housing decisions for transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary and intersex individuals. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Correction to assess all incarcerated individuals for their risk of sexual victimization at intake and when transferred between facilities. This bill would also create an appeals process for transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex individuals who requested specific housing based on identifying as such. This bill would also empower the Board of Correction to issue opinions regarding appeals of housing requests related to gender identity. | | |
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Int 0735-2024
| A | Althea V. Stevens | | | Requiring the department of correction to report on physical violence against and sexual harassment of correctional staff and ensure that staff have access to mental health treatment resources. | Introduction | This bill would require the Commissioner of Correction to report annually on alleged incidents of physical violence against and sexual harassment of Department of Correction (DOC) and Correctional Health Services (CHS) staff by incarcerated individuals or other staff that occurred in the previous year. The Commissioner would also be required to report annually on DOC’s investigations of these incidents. Additionally, the Commissioner would be required to review the information collected and report annually on any updates made to DOC’s policies concerning physical violence against and sexual harassment of staff. The Commissioner would be required to submit the reports to the Mayor, Speaker of the Council, and Board of Correction and post the reports on DOC’s website. This bill would also require the Commissioner to ensure that staff have access to mental health treatment resources, and to publicize resource availability to staff. | | |
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Int 1023-2024
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Requiring the DOC to establish, operate and maintain an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to incarcerated individuals. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Correction (DOC) to establish, operate, and maintain an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to incarcerated individuals. At minimum, this online scheduling system must be accessible by all major operating systems used by wireless communication devices or computers, give the public the ability to select, reserve, and modify dates for jail visits, provide real-time updates when DOC must cancel a scheduled visit, and provide the option for the public to save information to ease the administrative burden of scheduling repeat visits. | | |
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Int 1026-2024
| * | Crystal Hudson | | | Quarterly reporting regarding the visitation of incarcerated individuals and requiring the DOC to record interactions in which an individual is informed about a visitor and refuses to attend the visit. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Correction to report separately on in-person and tele-visits and provide more detailed reporting on the reasons jail visits are not completed. The bill would also require the Department of Correction to record interactions in which a person in custody is informed about a visitor and refuses to attend the visit and, upon request, provide those video recordings to defense attorneys. | | |
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Int 1027-2024
| * | Crystal Hudson | | | Requiring that people in the custody and staff of the DOC have access to gender-affirming items and medical devices. | Introduction | This bill would establish a process for people in custody to obtain wigs, hair extensions, chest binders, tucking undergarments or gaffs, prosthetics, or other similar items or medical devices that are used by individuals to affirm their self-determined gender identity. The bill also requires Department of Correction staff to have access to gender-affirming items or medical devices while at work. | | |
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Int 1036-2024
| * | Sandy Nurse | | | Requiring the DOC to provide reports regarding people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a mental health examination. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Correction to issue quarterly public reports on people in custody who have been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation pursuant to Section 730 of the New York Criminal Procedure Law. Among other things, information in these reports would include the number of people in custody who have been ordered to undergo mental health evaluations, the housing area type where these individuals are being detained, and the average length of time spent in custody. | | |
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Int 1061-2024
| * | Farah N. Louis | | | Department of correction report on sexual abuse. | Introduction | This bill would amend the Department of Correction’s semi-annual reports on alleged incidents and investigations of sexual harassment and abuse to require a unique identification number for each alleged incident, a unique identification number for each alleged victim, and a data dictionary for each report. It would also require the Department to provide a justification for not reporting any substantiated allegations to a District Attorney’s office. Additionally, the Commissioner would be required to review the information collected and report annually on any updates made to DOC’s prevention, detection and response policies concerning sexual harassment and abuse of people in custody. | | |
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