Bill Text: NY A01525 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits male correction officers from pat frisking female inmates unless such officer has probable cause that a pat frisk is necessary to prevent escape or to protect other inmates or prison employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A01525 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01525-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1525

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  male
          correction officers from pat frisking female inmates

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

     1    Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  No  male officer of the department shall pat frisk a female inmate
     4  in the custody of the department unless such officer has probable  cause
     5  to believe that a pat frisk is necessary to protect the immediate safety
     6  of other inmates or prison employees or to prevent escape.
     7    §  2.  Section 500-k of the correction law, as amended by chapter 2 of
     8  the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     9    § 500-k. Treatment of inmates. Subdivisions five [and], six and  seven
    10  of  section  one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter, except paragraphs
    11  (d) and (e) of subdivision six of such section, relating to  the  treat-
    12  ment  of  inmates  in  state  correctional  facilities are applicable to
    13  inmates confined in county jails; except that  the  report  required  by
    14  paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision  six  of such section shall be made to a
    15  person designated to receive such report in the rules and regulations of
    16  the state commission of correction, or in any county or city where there
    17  is a department of correction, to the head of such department.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



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