Bill Text: NY S03982 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires parole decisions to be published on a publicly accessible website within 60 days of such decision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-12 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3053 [S03982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03982-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3982
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 31, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the Committee on Crime
          Victims, Crime and Correction
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring parole deci-
          sions to be published on a website
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 259-i of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) All appeal decisions shall be published within sixty days  of  the
     4  determination  on  a  publicly  accessible website that includes a word-
     5  searchable database and cumulative subject matter index  of  such  deci-
     6  sions.  Such  subject  matter index shall be published annually in print
     7  form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries.  Copies  of
     8  such  individual appeal decisions and subject matter index shall also be
     9  made available upon written request to   the board.   Information  which
    10  would  reveal confidential material that may not be released pursuant to
    11  federal or state law shall be redacted from any such  website,  decision
    12  and index.
    13    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    14  law and shall apply to appeal decisions rendered on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06681-02-7
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