What's happening
This bill requires state correctional regulations to be developed with local input and allows counties flexibility in setting jail staffing ratios.
Why it matters
Brings local voices into state rulemaking. By requiring state correctional regulations to be developed in coordination with local jail administrators, county officials, and sheriffs, the bill aims to ensure that on-the-ground experience and local needs directly inform state rules.
County-level autonomy on staffing. The bill explicitly allows counties to set their own minimum staffing ratios for jails, which could help rural or high-cost counties better manage their resources and address unique staffing challenges.
Potential for more tailored correctional policies. By shifting some decision-making from the state to local authorities, the bill may lead to correctional facility policies that are more responsive to community-specific issues, such as jail population, facility design, and available resources.
Could impact jail safety and operations. Flexibility in staffing requirements might help counties address budget constraints, but it could also raise concerns about maintaining consistent standards for safety, inmate care, and staff workload across the state.
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Set Jail Standards with Flexibility
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- Referred to correction
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10641
IN ASSEMBLY
June 17, 2020
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) -read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 45 of the correction law, as amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
6. Promulgate rules and regulations in coordination with local jail administrators, county chief elected or appointed official and county sheriffs establishing minimum standards for the review of the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in correctional facilities. Such rules and regulations shall allow counties the flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios and such rules and regulations shall be forwarded to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly no later than January first, nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16698-01-0
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