File #: Int 1428-2019    Version: * Name: Requiring the police dept to report on arrests for obstruction of governmental administration.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 2/13/2019
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on arrests for obstruction of governmental administration
Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, (by request of the Queens Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the police department to report on the number of arrests for obstructing governmental administration.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1428, 2. Int. No. 1428, 3. Committee Report 2/7/19, 4. Hearing Testimony 2/7/19, 5. Hearing Transcript 2/7/19, 6. February 13, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 7. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-13-19, 8. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 13, 2019
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Int. No. 1428

 

By Council Member Lander (by request of the Queens Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on arrests for obstruction of governmental administration

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Subdivision a of section 14-181 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law of the city of New York for the year 2019, relating to reporting on arrests for resisting arrest and assault in the second degree, is amended to read as follows:

a. No later than 30 days after the quarter ending July 1, 2019 and 30 days after every quarter thereafter, the department shall submit to the council and publish on its website a report of each case in which a person was arrested under section 205.30, section 195.05, or subdivision 3 of section 120.05 of the penal law, regardless of whether such person was arrested for any other charges. All data shall be reported in a format capable of automated processing. Such report shall include the following information for each such arrest:

1. All arrest charges.

2. For arrests under section 205.30 of the penal law, the charge to which the person arrested was alleged to have resisted, and whether such charge is a violation or non-criminal offense, misdemeanor, or felony.

3. For arrests under section 205.30 of the penal law, whether the person was alleged to have resisted their own arrest or the arrest of another, and if so the relationship to the person arrested.

4. For arrests under section 120.05 of the penal law, the nature of the injuries, if any, suffered by the victim or victims.

5. For arrests under section 195.05 of the penal law, the official function with which the person arrested was alleged to have interfered.

[5] 6. Whether the district attorney declined to prosecute.

[6] 7. The borough and precinct in which the person was arrested.

[7] 8. Whether the person was arrested in an area operated in whole or in part by the office of court administration, the New York city housing authority, the department of homeless services, the human resources administration, or the social security administration, in total and disaggregated by such agency or office.

[8] 9. Whether a body worn camera recorded the arrest.

[9] 10. The race and ethnic origin of the person arrested.

[10] 11. The age of the person arrested.

[11] 12. The gender of the person arrested.

[12] 13. Whether the person arrested is known to identify as transgender.

[13] 14. Whether the person arrested is known to identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming.

§2.  This local law takes effect immediately.                     

 

 

 

 

 

LS 9441

AS

1/17/19