What's happening
This bill requires parole appeal decisions to be published online in a searchable database and provided to correctional facility libraries.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and accountability. by making parole appeal decisions publicly accessible in a searchable online format, allowing the public, advocates, and affected families to better understand how parole decisions are made.
Improves access to legal information for incarcerated individuals. by requiring printed indexes and decisions to be distributed to all correctional facility libraries, helping people navigate the appeals process and understand precedents relevant to their cases.
Protects privacy and sensitive information. by mandating redaction of confidential materials that cannot be released under state or federal law, balancing transparency with the need to safeguard personal and protected data.
Standardizes and expedites public access. by requiring publication within sixty days and annual updates in print, ensuring consistent, timely, and systematic availability of parole appeal decision records.
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Publish Parole Decisions Online
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2 Co-sponsors
History
- Approval memo.17
- Signed chap.412
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- 3rd reading cal.1523
- Substituted for S3982
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.403
- Reported
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- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to correction
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Publish Parole Decisions Online
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3053
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring parole decisions to be published on a website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
(c) All appeal decisions shall be published within sixty days of the determination on a publicly accessible website that includes a wordsearchable database and cumulative subject matter index of such decisions. Such subject matter index shall be published annually in print form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries. Copies of such individual appeal decisions and subject matter index shall also be made available upon written request to the board. Information which would reveal confidential material that may not be released pursuant to federal or state law shall be redacted from any such website, decision and index.
§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 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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