Int. No. 1023
By Council Members Gutiérrez, Louis, Nurse, Restler, Hanif and Cabán
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, relation to requiring the department of correction to establish, operate and maintain an online scheduling system to facilitate visits to incarcerated individuals
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 9-168 to read as follows:
§ 9-168 Visitation Scheduling System. a. The department, in conjunction with the department of information technology and telecommunications, shall, within 180 days of enactment of this local law, establish, and thereafter operate and maintain, an online scheduling system to facilitate in person and tele-visits to incarcerated individuals in the department’s custody. This online scheduling system shall include, at minimum, the following features:
1. The ability for members of the public to access the online scheduling system with all major operating systems utilized by wireless communication devices or computers;
2. The ability for members of the public to select and reserve a specific date and time to visit an incarcerated individual;
3. The ability, if necessary, for a member of the public to modify the specific date and time of a previously scheduled visit;
4. The ability to provide real-time updates to members of the public with a visit scheduled with an incarcerated individual when the department becomes aware that the visit must be cancelled;
5. The option, for members of the public, to have information entered into the online scheduling system retained by the department to ease the administrative burden of scheduling future visits to incarcerated individuals.
b. The online scheduling system established, and thereafter operated and maintained by
the department shall comply with the most recent cybersecurity standards and policies issued by the office of cyber command.
c. The data collected by the online system should comply with the latest encryption protocols issued by the office of cyber command and should not be shared unless required by federal, state or local law.
d. Only authorized personnel that require access to perform their duties shall have access to the online scheduling system and the data collected by the online scheduling system and access controls and audit mechanisms shall be implemented to monitor data access.
§ 2. This local law takes effect upon enactment.
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8/27/24