File #: Int 1222-2018    Version: * Name: Requiring the dept of correction to post a quarterly report regarding the visitation of incarcerated individuals.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Criminal Justice
On agenda: 11/14/2018
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to post a quarterly report regarding the visitation of incarcerated individuals
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: The Department of Correction is required to report justifications for visitor cancellation. This law would require the department to report on this area with greater specificity.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1222, 2. Int. No. 1222, 3. November 14, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-14-2018, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 14, 2018

Int. No. 1222

 

By Council Member Dromm

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to post a quarterly report regarding the visitation of incarcerated individuals

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Paragraph 3 of subdivision b of section 9-140 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 85 for the year 2015, is amended to read as follows: 

3. The number of visitors unable to visit an inmate at any city jail, in total and disaggregated by the reason such visit was not completed. If any such incomplete visit is categorized as “pending investigation” or “refuse to obey rules and regulations,” the department shall disaggregate the reason such incomplete visit was so categorized. The department shall include a reason for the refusal of an incarcerated individual to accept visitors.

§ 2. Subdivision b of section 9-140 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraph 7 to read as follows:

7. The mean and median duration of visits to incarcerated individuals, in total and disaggregated by facility and by professional and non-professional visits.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

AS

LS 7672/7862

9/21/2018, 3:53 PM