What's happening
This bill requires annual public reports on certain criminal offenses occurring on bus routes in New York municipalities under one million residents.
Why it matters
Brings transparency to bus route safety. By requiring detailed, publicly accessible reports on specific crimes occurring on bus routes, the bill empowers community members, transit riders, and advocates to better understand safety challenges in their local transit systems.
Enables data-driven policy and resource allocation. With offenses categorized by crime type, location (by bus route), and whether the individuals involved are employees, passengers, or others, local governments and transit authorities get actionable information to target interventions, training, or policing.
Promotes accountability and ongoing monitoring. Monthly and annual reporting, as well as regular online updates, ensure that the public and officials can track trends, assess the effectiveness of safety measures, and respond to emerging issues more quickly.
Focuses on smaller municipalities. By applying to cities, towns, and villages with fewer than one million residents, the bill addresses a gap in oversight and public safety transparency that often exists outside major metropolitan areas like New York City.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
479
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reports on certain criminal offenses on public transportation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 397-c to read as follows:
§ 397-c. Reports of certain criminal acts on public transportation. Municipal, town and village police departments in villages, towns and cities with fewer than one million residents shall prepare, annually, a report detailing the total number of criminal complaints and arrests, categorized by class of crime, for violent felony offenses as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, assault and related offenses as defined in article one hundred twenty of the penal law, sex offenses as defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal law, disorderly conduct as defined in section 240.20 of the penal law, harassment as defined in sections 240.25 and 240.26 of the penal law, and aggravated harassment as defined in sections 240.30 and 240.31 of the penal law, where the conduct occurs on bus routes operated by such village, town or municipality or its transit authority, specifying where such criminal conduct has occurred by bus route. Such report shall contain a separate tabulation for employees of the authority, passengers and other non-employees. Such statistics shall be tabulated on a monthly basis and on an annual basis and shall be maintained and transmitted in an electronic format to the department of records and information services, or its successor agency, and be made available to the public on or through the department of records and information services' website, or its successor's website. Such statistics shall be first made available on such website ninety days after the effective date of this section and shall be updated on at least a monthly basis thereafter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01487-01-9
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