File #: Int 1020-2024    Version: * Name: Replacement of the individual responsible for implementing certain duties of the commissioner of investigation relating to the police department and reporting on investigations relating to the police department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Oversight and Investigations
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the replacement of the individual responsible for implementing certain duties of the commissioner of investigation relating to the police department and reporting on investigations relating to the police department
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Carlina Rivera , Diana I. Ayala, Kamillah Hanks, Chris Banks, Crystal Hudson, Shekar Krishnan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Alexa Avilés, Chi A. Ossé, Nantasha M. Williams, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require that the Commissioner of Investigation replace the Inspector General for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) within 90 days after an Inspector General resigns or is removed. This bill would also require the Department of Investigation (DOI) to report: the subject matter of any investigation, review, study, or audit relating to the NYPD that has been open for more than three years; descriptions of the incidents when the NYPD restricted or significantly delayed access to any information that the Inspector General required or interfered with the Inspector General’s duties; and the number of investigations, reviews, studies, and audits relating to the police department that were closed without issuing a report during the preceding calendar year.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1020, 2. Int. No. 1020, 3. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 4. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1020

 

By Council Members Brewer, Rivera, Ayala, Hanks, Banks, Hudson, Krishnan, De La Rosa, Avilés, Ossé, Williams and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the replacement of the individual responsible for implementing certain duties of the commissioner of investigation relating to the police department and reporting on investigations relating to the police department

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision c of section 803 of the New York city charter, as added by local law number 70 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

2. Not later than ninety days after the effective date of the local law that added this subdivision, the commissioner shall report to the council regarding the identity and qualifications of the individual responsible for overseeing the implementation of the duties described in paragraph 1 of this subdivision, the number of personnel assigned to assist that individual, and the details of the management structure covering them. [Upon removal or replacement of the individual responsible for overseeing the implementation of the duties described in paragraph 1 of this subdivision,] In the event such individual who is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the duties described in paragraph 1 of this subdivision is removed or resigns, the commissioner shall replace such individual within 90 days of such removal or resignation and shall provide notification of that removal or replacement, and the identity and qualifications of the new individual [responsible for overseeing the implementation of the duties described in paragraph 1 of this subdivision, shall be provided] to the council.

§ 2. Paragraph 3 of subdivision e of section 803 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law number 165 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

3. In addition to the reports and statements of findings to be delivered to the mayor, the council, the commissioner of correction, and the police commissioner pursuant to paragraph 2 of this subdivision, there shall be an annual summary report on the activities undertaken pursuant to paragraph 1 of subdivision c and paragraph 1 of subdivision d of this section containing the following information: (a) a description of all significant findings from the investigations, reviews, studies, and audits conducted in the preceding year; (b) a description of the recommendations for corrective action made in the preceding year; (c) an identification of each recommendation described in previous annual reports on which corrective action has not been implemented or completed; [and] (d) the number of open investigations, reviews, studies, or audits that have been open, as of the close of the preceding calendar year, for a time period of (1) six months up to and including one year, (2) more than one year up to and including two years, (3) more than two years up to and including three years, and (4) more than three years[.]; (e) the subject matter of each investigation, review, study, or audit relating to the police department that has been open, as of the close of the preceding calendar year, for more than three years; (f) a detailed description of each incident where the police department did not give full, direct, or timely access to all information relevant to the performance of the duties described in paragraph 1 of subdivision c of this section or any attempt by the police department to interfere with the performance of such duties; and (g) the number of investigations, reviews, studies, and audits relating to the police department that were closed without issuing a report during the preceding calendar year. The annual summary report required by this paragraph relating to the police department shall be completed and delivered to the mayor, the council, and the police commissioner on April 1, 2015 and every April 1 thereafter. The annual summary required by this paragraph relating to the department of correction shall be completed and delivered to the mayor, the council, and the commissioner of correction on April 1 beginning in 2018.

§ 3.  This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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