Int. No. 491
By Council Members Halloran, Cabrera, Chin, Fidler, James, Koppell, Mealy, Williams, Nelson, Koo and Ulrich
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York City Police Department to report on gang-related arrests in schools.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 14-152 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
14-152. School activity reporting. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Non-criminal incident" shall mean an incident occurring within a New York city public school that does not constitute a felony or misdemeanor, and that falls within one of the following types: dangerous instruments; fireworks; trespass; disorderly conduct; harassment; loitering; or possession of marijuana.
2. "School safety agent" shall mean a person employed by the department as a peace officer for the purpose of maintaining safety in New York city public schools.
3. "Gang" shall mean a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision b of section 10-170 of chapter one of title ten of this code.
4. "Gang motivated incident," shall mean an incident involving unlawful conduct committed primarily to benefit the interests of a gang.
b. Report of activity relating to schools. The department shall submit to the council on a quarterly basis, a report based on data reflecting summons, arrest and non-criminal incident activity from the preceding quarter. Such report shall be disaggregated by patrol borough and include, at a minimum:
1. the number of individuals arrested and/or issued a summons by school safety agents or police officers assigned to the school safety division of the New York city police department;
2. in those cases where arrests were made or summonses were issued: (i) the charges (including penal law section or other section of law), [and ](ii) whether the charge was a felony, misdemeanor or violation, and (iii) whether the charge resulted from a gang motivated incident; and
3. the number and type of non-criminal incidents that occurred.
ยง 2. This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law.
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