What's happening
This bill requires all visitors, personnel, and employees to be scanned by body imaging equipment before entering New York correctional facilities.
Why it matters
Significantly increases security screening. By requiring all visitors, employees, and personnel (not just inmates or select individuals) to be scanned by body imaging equipment, the bill aims to reduce the risk of contraband, weapons, or drugs being brought into correctional facilities.
Impacts privacy and civil liberties. Mandatory full-body scanning for everyone entering a correctional facility raises concerns about personal privacy, potential health effects, and how personal data or images are managed and protected.
Affects daily operations and facility logistics. Implementing this requirement will likely require investment in new equipment, staff training, and could cause delays or longer wait times for entry, impacting both staff and visitor routines.
Aligns with existing public health definitions. The bill references specific definitions in the public health law, which could help standardize the type of scanning equipment used and ensure it meets certain safety or regulatory standards.
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Require Body Scanners in Prisons
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Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Held for consideration in health
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4978
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the use of body imaging scanning in correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b to read as follows:
§ 138-b. Body imaging scanners. Every correctional facility shall require all visitors, personnel and employees of such correctional facility to be scanned by body imaging scanning equipment in accordance with subdivision six of section thirty-five hundred two of the public health law before entering such correctional facility. For purposes of this section "body imaging scanning equipment" shall have the same meaning as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision six of section thirtyfive hundred two of the public health law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08419-01-9
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