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Assembly Bill A5957

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to confidential hearing records

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-A5957 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5824
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §138, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S2674
2021-2022: S2910
2023-2024: A7192, S5170

2025-A5957 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing incarcerated individual in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.

2025-A5957 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5957
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to confidential  hearing
   records
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 138 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  AN  ATTORNEY REPRESENTING AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL IN ANY APPEAL
 OF A DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING  OR  IN  ANY  LAWSUIT  RELATED  TO  SUCH  A
 PROCEEDING  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED WITH A COPY OF THE ENTIRE HEARING RECORD
 BUT SHALL NOT REDISCLOSE SUCH RECORDS OR ANY  INFORMATION  CONTAINED  IN
 THE  RECORDS  TO  ANY  PERSON  NOT OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY LAW TO OBTAIN
 THEM. THE NAME, IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, HOUSING LOCATION OR WORK  ASSIGN-
 MENT  OF  ANY  CONFIDENTIAL  INFORMANT MAY BE REDACTED FROM SUCH HEARING
 RECORD.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10072-01-5

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