Bill Text: NJ A4155 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires statistics for crimes committed in correctional facilities to be set apart from county crimes or other statistics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A4155 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4155-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman HAROLD "HAL" J. WIRTHS
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Requires crime statistics for crimes committed in correctional facilities to be set apart from county crimes or other statistics.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning crime statistics and amending and supplementing P.L.1966, c.37.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 4 of P.L.1966, c.37 (C.52:17B-5.4) is amended as follows:
4. a. Upon receipt of such information the Attorney General shall have such data collated and formulated and shall compile such statistics as he may deem necessary in order to present a proper classification and analysis of the volume and nature of crime and the administration of criminal justice within this State.
b. The classification and analysis presented in accordance with subsection a. shall include a section on the per capita crime statistics for a resort municipality as defined in section 3 of P.L.1998, c.50 (C.34:1-5.2). That section shall contain data based on both the population of the resort municipality and the annual mean population of that municipality as estimated by the Department of Labor pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1998, c.50 (C.34:1-5.1).
c. The classification and analysis presented in accordance with subsection a. for statistics on crimes committed in correctional facilities as defined in section 3 of P.L.2019, c.160 (C.30:4-82.7) shall be collated, formulated, and compiled in a separate section.
(cf: P.L.1998, c.50, s.1)
2. (New section) The Office of the Attorney General may promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
Current law requires all local and county police authorities to submit a quarterly report to the Attorney General, which report contains, among other things, the number and nature of offenses committed within their respective jurisdictions.
The Attorney General is required, upon receipt of the information, to collate and formulate the data and compile the statistics as necessary in order to present a proper classification and analysis of the volume and nature of crime and the administration of criminal justice within this State.
This bill requires that the classification and analysis include a section on the statistics for crimes committed in correctional facilities to be reported separately from other county crimes or any other statistics.
The bill also permits the Office of the Attorney General to promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this bill.
