File #: Int 1360-2025    Version: * Name: Outreach regarding youth programs provided by the police department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 8/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to outreach regarding youth programs provided by the police department
Sponsors: Rita C. Joseph, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the NYPD to develop materials regarding their youth programs and provide them to the Department of Education. The Department of Education would be tasked with distributing those materials to students in the New York City school system. Additionally, the police commissioner would provide council members with information about when these youth programs occur and would post materials on the NYPD’s website and precinct landing pages.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1360, 2. Int. No. 1360, 3. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1360

 

By Council Members Joseph and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to outreach regarding youth programs provided by the police department

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 14-199 to read as follows:

§ 14-199 Youth programs. a. Development of materials. 1. No later than July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall develop informational materials regarding youth programming offered by the department.

2. Materials developed by the commissioner shall include information regarding the times and dates at which a program is offered, when and how a person may sign up for such program, and where more information about such program may be found.

3. Materials developed by the commissioner shall be available in English and the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101 of the administrative code.

b. Outreach. 1. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the chancellor of the city school district, provide the department of education the materials developed in accordance with subdivision a of this section.

2. The commissioner shall provide council members with information about youth programming sponsored by precincts located within the council member’s district. Such information shall be provided based on the frequency that the relevant youth programming is offered and allow for sufficient time for a person to enroll in such youth programming.

c. Websites. The commissioner shall post information about citywide youth initiatives created by the department on the home page of the department’s website and post materials describing youth programming specific to a precinct on such precinct’s landing page. The commissioner shall review and update information on the department’s website as necessary, but at least on a quarterly basis, to ensure that all youth program offerings are captured on the department’s website.

§ 2. The title of chapter 31 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 73 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER 31

DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION REGARDING AFTERSCHOOL, SUMMER, AND OTHER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

§ 3. Chapter 31 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 21-1002.2 to read as follows:

§ 21-1002.2 Distribution of police department youth program material. Each academic year, the chancellor shall distribute to all students materials regarding youth programs created by the police department in accordance with section 14-199. Such materials shall be distributed electronically and made available in the main or central office of each school and in any other means deemed appropriate by the chancellor.

§ 4. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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