NY State Senate Bill S356

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 06, 2016	referred to crime victims, crime and correction
Apr 23, 2015	reported and committed to finance
Mar 20, 2015	notice of committee consideration - requested
Jan 07, 2015	referred to crime victims, crime and correction

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S356 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2943
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §259-c, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S7844, A9370
2017-2018: S4891, S8647, A2471

S356 - Summary

Clarifies the duty of the state board of parole in reporting parole statistics; specifies necessary information.

S356 - Sponsor Memo

 BILL NUMBER:  S356

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the executive law, in relation to
the duties of the state board of parole

 PURPOSE :

This bill directs the Board of Parole to add to their annual report
the demographic data of persons considered for release.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1. Amends the executive law, section 259-c, subdivision 13.
Provides that the parole board shall publish demographic data
including race, ethnicity, region of commitment and other relevant
data regarding the persons it considers for release in its statutorily
required annual report to the governor and the legislature.

Section 2. Effective Date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The Board of Parole has reported that it does not track release
decisions by age, ethnicity or other standard criteria maintained by
the Department of Correctional Services. In a public hearing in 2013,
the Board chair testified that it has remained completely neutral with

respect to demographic comparisons in its parole release
decision-making process but admitted that the Board maintains no
demographic data to support that claim. The chair also testified that
the Board gives no special consideration to the characteristics of
inmates which are known to indicate a low risk of recidivism,
characteristics like age and category of crime, and has no ability to
make sure that discriminatory decisions are not being made based on
race, ethnicity, region of commitment, type of offense, age or gender.

The Board claims that race is not a factor in its decisions, but since
the Board has never documented race or other demographic data of
persons it considers for release, the Board cannot know whether it is
in fact as neutral as it purports to be. Because the Department of
Correctional Services documents and reports on the demographics of its
inmates in a large variety of categories, the ability to track such
data and report on it is already available at no additional cost to
taxpayers. The Board should be able to reflect on its own performance
and lay to rest any claims of disparate treatment.

 EXISTING LAW :

None.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2014: S.7844 - Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction/A.9370
Passed Assembly

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Minimal to none in consideration of the fact that the data is already
tracked by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision,
and that the Board already is required to issue an annual report.

 LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

S356 - Bill Text download pdf

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   356

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  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  executive law, in relation to the duties of the
  state board of parole

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  13 of section 259-c of the executive law, as
amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  13. transmit a report of the work of the state board of parole for the
preceding calendar year to the governor and  the  legislature  annually.
SUCH  REPORT  SHALL  INCLUDE STATISTICAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE DEMO-
GRAPHICS OF PERSONS GRANTED RELEASE AND CONSIDERED FOR RELEASE TO COMMU-
NITY SUPERVISION OR DEPORTATION,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  AGE,
GENDER, RACE, ETHNICITY, REGION OF COMMITMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT CATEGO-
RIES OF CLASSIFICATION AND COMMITMENT;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01592-01-5

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