Int. No. 37-A
By Council Members Gonzalez, Brewer, Fidler, James, Koppell, Lander, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Reyna, Rodriguez, Sanders Jr., Jackson, Foster, Crowley, Halloran, Arroyo, Dilan, Williams, White, Levin and Rose
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of juvenile justice to report on demographic data.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter to read as follows:
Chapter 2
Department of Juvenile Justice
§9-201 Demographic Data.
9-201 Demographic Data. a. Beginning no later than September 30th of the year of enactment of the local law that added this section and on or before September 30th of each year thereafter, the department of juvenile justice shall post a report on the department website regarding the total number of admissions to detention facilities in the previous fiscal year disaggregated by the following: (i) age; (ii) gender; (iii) race; (iv) zip code of residence, except that for a number between one and five admissions from one zip code, the number shall be replaced with a symbol; (v) for youth remanded to a detention facility by a court, the most serious charged offense on the court petition, complaint or indictment at the time the department assumed custody; and (vi) for youth brought to detention by police, whether the top arrest charge was a misdemeanor or a felony at the time the department assumed custody.
b. Beginning no later than September 30th of the year of enactment of the local law that added this section and on or before September 30th of each year thereafter, the department of juvenile justice shall post a report on the department website regarding the average daily population in secure and non-secure detention facilities in the previous fiscal year and the number of youth admitted during the reporting period who spent time either in non-secure detention only, secure detention only, or both non-secure and secure detention, during the reporting period, disaggregated by the following: (i) age; (ii) gender; (iii) race; (iv) zip code of residence except that for a number between one and five admissions from one zip code, the number shall be replaced with a symbol; (v) for youth remanded to a detention facility by a court, the most serious charged offense on the court petition, complaint or indictment at the time the department assumed custody; and (vi) for youth brought to detention by police, whether the top arrest charge was a misdemeanor or a felony at the time the department assumed custody.
§2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law.
LS #7690
LC
04/20/2010
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