File #: Int 0349-2022    Version: Name: Dyslexia screening in city jails and referrals to evidence-based programs.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Criminal Justice
On agenda: 5/5/2022
Enactment date: 10/18/2023 Law number: 2023/138
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to dyslexia screening in city jails and referrals to evidence-based programs
Sponsors: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Keith Powers , Rita C. Joseph, Farah N. Louis, Kalman Yeger , Althea V. Stevens, Lincoln Restler, Shaun Abreu, Alexa Avilés, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Eric Dinowitz, Christopher Marte, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Shahana K. Hanif, Marjorie Velázquez, Mercedes Narcisse, Linda Lee, Carlina Rivera , James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This legislation would require the Department of Correction to screen and offer evidence-based interventions to individuals between 18 and 21 years old in custody who self-report that they do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent for dyslexia immediately. This mandate to offer screening and evidence-based intervention for dyslexia would expand to the entire jail population by December 31, 2025. The department must also coordinate with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and city-contracted programs that serve justice-involved individuals to provide dyslexia interventions after individuals are released from custody. On a quarterly basis, the department must issue public reports on how many individuals, disaggregated by age and zip code, are being screened for dyslexia and enrolling in available programming.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 349-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 349, 3. Int. No. 349, 4. May 5, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-5-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 5, 2022, 7. Committee Report 6/28/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/28/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/28/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 349-A - 9/27/23, 11. Committee Report 9/28/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/28/23, 13. September 28, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-28-23, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 28, 2023, 16. Int. No. 349-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Mayor's Letter, 19. Local Law 138
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Int. No. 349-A

 

By the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams) and Council Members Powers, Joseph, Louis, Yeger, Stevens, Restler, Abreu, Avilés, Brooks-Powers, Dinowitz, Marte, Gutiérrez, Hanif, Velázquez, Narcisse, Lee, Rivera and Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to dyslexia screening in city jails and referrals to evidence-based programs

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 9 of the administrative code is amended by adding a new section 9-166 to read as follows:

§ 9-166 Dyslexia screening and evidence-based programs. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Department. The term “department” means the department of correction.

Dyslexia. The term “dyslexia” has the same meaning as such term is defined in subsection 1 of section 3635 of title 18 of the United States code.

b. The department shall offer to screen all incarcerated persons between the ages of 18 and 21 who self-report that they do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent for being at risk of dyslexia within 10 days of entering custody of the department. Provided that the department of education may screen such persons who enroll in a program administered by the department of education for being at risk of dyslexia. Any information provided to such incarcerated individuals about available educational services must include specific information about the availability of screening for being at risk of dyslexia and evidence-based interventions based on such screening. Any refusal by such incarcerated person to be screened for dyslexia or to receive educational services offered by the department of education at the time of such screening must be documented by either a video or written statement by the incarcerated individual. The department shall refer such incarcerated person who was identified through the screening as being at risk of dyslexia to a program that provides evidence-based interventions as necessary for persons who are at risk of dyslexia.

c. No later than December 31, 2024, the department shall offer to screen all incarcerated individuals over the age of 21 who self-report that they do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent and who received a sentence of imprisonment and are subject to an order of commitment that provides that such incarcerated individual shall remain in the custody of the department. The department shall offer to screen such incarcerated individuals within 10 days of receiving such order. The department shall refer an incarcerated person who was identified through the screening as being at risk of dyslexia to a program that provides evidence-based interventions as necessary for persons who are at risk of dyslexia. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subdivision, the department need not offer such screening where such incarcerated individual previously received such screening by the department.

d. No later than December 31, 2025, the department shall offer to screen all incarcerated persons over the age of 21 who self-report that they do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent for dyslexia within 10 days of entering custody of the department. The department shall refer an incarcerated person who was identified through the screening as being at risk of dyslexia to a program that provides evidence-based interventions as necessary for persons who are at risk of dyslexia.

e. The department may enter into an agreement with another agency to provide such evidence-based interventions and shall coordinate with the office of criminal justice and city-contracted programs that serve justice-involved individuals to identify and provide referrals to dyslexia screening programs and evidence-based interventions available to individuals after being released from the custody of the department.

f. No later than December 31, 2024 and quarterly thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor, the speaker of the council and the public advocate and post conspicuously on the department’s website a report regarding dyslexia screening and referrals for enrollment in evidence-based intervention programs in city jails. Such report shall not contain personally identifiable information. Such report shall include the following information for the previous quarter:

1. The number of individuals who were screened by the department for being at risk of dyslexia pursuant to subdivision b of this section;

2. The number of individuals who were screened by the department for being at risk of dyslexia pursuant to subdivision c of this section;

3. The number of individuals who were screened by the department for being at risk of dyslexia pursuant to subdivision d of this section;

4. The number of individuals who were identified through screening as being at risk of dyslexia disaggregated by race, gender, zip code of last known address, and age as follows: 18-21, 22-25, 26-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 or older; and

5. The number of individuals who received a referral and participated in evidence-based interventions as a result of screening, disaggregated by race, gender, zip code of last known address, and age as follows: 18-21, 22-25, 26-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 or older.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

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