Bill Text: NY A07687 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the study of the staffing of parole officers and other employees of the department assigned to community supervision; provides such study shall include, but not be limited to, a review of the number of parole officers in the field and in facilities, the number of persons released to community supervision, the caseloads assigned to parole officers, and whether such staffing is sufficient to achieve the public safety goals of the department and the reentry objectives of community supervision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-23 - signed chap.361 [A07687 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07687-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7687
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 9, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN  ACT  authorizing the study of parole officer staffing; and providing
          for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  department  of corrections and community supervision
     2  shall conduct a study and issue  a  report  regarding  the  staffing  of
     3  parole officers and other employees of the department assigned to commu-
     4  nity supervision. Such study shall consider national standards and stan-
     5  dards  set  by  the American Correctional Association in addition to any
     6  other published best practices in  examining  the  adequacy  of  current
     7  staffing  levels.    Such  study shall include, but not be limited to, a
     8  review of the number of parole officers in the field and in  facilities,
     9  the  number  of persons released to community supervision, the caseloads
    10  assigned to parole officers, and whether such staffing is sufficient  to
    11  achieve the public safety goals of the department and the reentry objec-
    12  tives of community supervision pursuant to section 201 of the correction
    13  law.
    14    § 2. Six months after the effective date of this act, the commissioner
    15  of the department of corrections and community supervision shall deliver
    16  a  copy  of the report with the findings of the study conducted pursuant
    17  to section one of this act and any legislative recommendations he or she
    18  deems to be necessary to the governor, the temporary  president  of  the
    19  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the chairman of the senate crime
    20  victims, crime and correction committee and the chairman of the assembly
    21  committee on correction.
    22    § 3. The commissioner of the department of corrections  and  community
    23  supervision  may  request, and is authorized to receive, any information
    24  from any state agencies that is relevant and material to the  completion
    25  of  this  study  and report. Such information received by the department
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall be subject to the same requirements for confidentiality and  limi-
     2  tations  on  use,  if any, as are applicable to each such state agency's
     3  use of such information.
     4    §  4.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     5  deemed repealed thirty days after the delivery  of  the  report  to  the
     6  governor and the legislature as provided for in section two of this act.