Int. No. 439-A
By Council Members Williams, Narcisse, Kagan, Hanks, Riley, Stevens, Hudson, Abreu, Restler, Sanchez, Louis, Ayala, Brewer, Brannan, De La Rosa, Farías, Velázquez, Ossé, Joseph, Rivera and Gennaro
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the mayor’s office of criminal justice to evaluate the performance of criminal justice programs that receive funding from the city
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions (2) and (3) of section 13 of chapter 1 of the New York city charter, as added by vote of the electors on November 4, 1975, are amended to read as follows:
(2)review the budget requests of all agencies for programs related to criminal justice and recommend to the mayor budget priorities among such programs; [and,]
(3)evaluate the performance of the vendor of any contract with the office of criminal justice or the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence that requires the vendor to provide: (i) alternatives to incarceration, including programs for diversion from incarceration; (ii) services related to re-entry to the community following incarceration; (iii) services related to pretrial supervised release; or (iv) violence prevention programming. Beginning no later than September 1, 2024, and no later than September 1 annually thereafter, the coordinator shall submit a written summary of each evaluation conducted pursuant to this subdivision during the previous fiscal year to the mayor and the speaker of the council. Any such summary shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information: (i) the amount of funding received by the vendor pursuant to the contract; (ii) the number of persons to whom services or programming were provided pursuant to the contract; (iii) a brief description of the services or programming provided pursuant to the contract; and (iv) where applicable, information related to re-arrest or compliance by persons to whom services or programming were provided pursuant to the contract, including the rate of re-arrest for such persons; and
(4) perform such other duties as the mayor may assign.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
XC/JDK
LS 8496
2/22/23