Bill Text: NY A05388 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish contraband screening at correctional facilities including canines at the entrances and a third-party secure vendor mail program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A05388 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05388-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5388

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO,  BLANKENBUSH,  DeSTEFANO, FRIEND,
          J. M. GIGLIO, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN, MORINELLO,  NORRIS,  REILLY,
          SAYEGH, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BYRNES, WALSH
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to contraband screening
          at correctional facilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. (a) The commissioner shall establish a  contraband  screening  plan
     4  which shall include, but not be limited to:
     5    (i) the use of a leashed and controlled canine trained to detect ille-
     6  gal drugs at the entrance of each correctional facility;
     7    (ii)  the search of visitors, correctional staff, bags and other items
     8  entering the facility which may include, but not be  limited  to,  elec-
     9  tronic  searches, metal detectors, pat searches, visual searches of oral
    10  cavities,  and  any  other  legal  technology  at   the   commissioner's
    11  discretion;
    12    (iii)  the  training  of  staff  on  up to date and current contraband
    13  screening procedures; and
    14    (iv) a third-party secure vendor mail program to be utilized  for  the
    15  delivery  of  all non-privileged correspondence to incarcerated individ-
    16  uals including but not  limited  to,  the  order  and  delivery  of  all
    17  products to incarcerated individuals housed at correctional facilities.
    18    (b) The commissioner shall provide a copy of such contraband screening
    19  plan  as  well  as  the  prior  year's plan including but not limited to
    20  results of the canine assignments, number of attempts to promote contra-
    21  band, including data on contraband confiscated through  the  third-party
    22  secure  vendor  mail  program  and  the  number of urine tests and their

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05403-01-3
        A. 5388                             2

     1  results conducted statewide by facilities to the legislature by December
     2  thirty-first each year.
     3    (c)  The  commissioner may promulgate any rules and regulations neces-
     4  sary to implement the provisions of this subdivision.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.