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Assembly Bill A7925

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the inclusion of certain information by the division of criminal justice services in analysis of regarding hate crimes

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2019-A7925 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §837, Exec L

2019-A7925 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the inclusion of information regarding the race, ethnicity, age, sex, and, where known, the sexual orientation and gender identity of persons arrested for, pleading guilty to or convicted of offenses in the information the division of criminal justice services collects and analyzes regarding hate crimes.

2019-A7925 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7925
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  the  inclu-
   sion  of  information  regarding  the  race, ethnicity, age, sex, and,
   where known, the sexual orientation and  gender  identity  of  persons
   arrested  for,  pleading  guilty  to  or  convicted of offenses in the
   information the division of criminal  justice  services  collects  and
   analyzes regarding hate crimes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4-c of section 837 of  the  executive  law,  as
 added by chapter 107 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
   4-c. In cooperation with the chief administrator of the courts as well
 as  any  other public or private agency, including law enforcement agen-
 cies, collect and analyze statistical and all other information and data
 with respect to the number of hate crimes reported to or investigated by
 the division of state police, and all other police  or  peace  officers,
 the  number  of  persons arrested for the commission of such crimes, the
 offense for which the person was arrested,  THE  RACE,  ETHNICITY,  AGE,
 SEX, AND, WHERE KNOWN, THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY OF THE
 PERSON  ARRESTED,  the  county  within which the arrest was made and the
 accusatory instrument filed, the disposition of the  accusatory  instru-
 ment  filed, including, but not limited to, as the case may be, dismiss-
 al, acquittal, the offense to  which  the  defendant  pled  guilty,  the
 offense the defendant was convicted of after trial, THE RACE, ETHNICITY,
 AGE,  SEX,  AND, WHERE KNOWN, THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY
 OF THE DEFENDANT WHO PLED GUILTY TO OR WAS CONVICTED OF THE OFFENSE, and
 the sentence imposed. The division  shall  include  the  statistics  and
 other  information  required  by  this  subdivision in the annual report
 submitted to the governor and legislature pursuant to subdivision twelve
 of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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