Bill Text: NY S02594 | 2021-2022 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-11 - PRINT NUMBER 2594A [S02594 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02594-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2594

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          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. The commissioner shall establish a contraband screening plan  which
     4  shall include, but not be limited to:
     5    (a) the use of a leashed and controlled canine trained to detect ille-
     6  gal  drugs at the entrance of each correctional facility at a minimum of
     7  twelve facilities per week, provided such minimum shall be  recalculated
     8  by  the  commissioner  if  any  correctional  facilities are closed on a
     9  random but rotating basis to ensure all facilities are included;
    10    (b) the search of visitors, correctional staff, bags and  other  items
    11  entering  the  facility  which may include, but not be limited to, elec-
    12  tronic searches, metal detectors, pat searches, visual searches of  oral
    13  cavities,   and   any  other  legal  technology  at  the  commissioner's
    14  discretion; and
    15    (c) the training of staff on up to date and current contraband screen-
    16  ing procedures.
    17    (d) The commissioner shall provide a copy of such contraband screening
    18  plan as well as the prior year's  plan  including  but  not  limited  to
    19  results of the canine assignments, number of attempts to promote contra-
    20  band and the number of urine tests and their results conducted statewide
    21  by facilities to the legislature by December thirty-first each year.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04536-01-1