What's happening
This bill creates a statewide program to assess, prevent, and suppress gang-related crime, including grants, law enforcement coordination, and information sharing.
Why it matters
Builds a statewide infrastructure for tackling gang crime. , not just through police action but also by requiring coordinated strategies for assessment, intervention, and prevention, aiming to address root causes and not just symptoms of gang activity.
Creates new funding opportunities for local district attorneys. , incentivizing them to develop targeted anti-gang initiatives that must include data-driven assessments and collaborative enforcement strategies—potentially leading to more innovative, community-specific responses.
Mandates extensive information sharing among law enforcement agencies. , including the creation of a centralized “gang clearinghouse” for tracking criminal gangs—raising both the potential for more effective cross-jurisdictional enforcement and concerns about data privacy and oversight.
Encourages interstate and interagency collaboration. , requiring New York prosecutors to actively partner with agencies in other states, which could help disrupt criminal networks that cross state lines but might also create new logistical and legal challenges.
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Fight Gangs With Prevention Program
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History
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Stop Gang Crime Program
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Monica Martinez
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6707
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, RODRIGUEZ, SANTABARBARA, CRESPO -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a gang assessment, intervention, prevention and suppression program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-t to read as follows:
§ 837-t. Gang assessment, intervention, prevention and suppression program. 1. There is hereby created within the division a gang assessment, intervention, prevention and suppression program to be administered by the commissioner to distribute funds in accordance with the provisions of this section for the purpose of eliminating the scourge of gang related criminal activity in New York state.
2. The superintendent of the division of state police, in cooperation with all local, state and federal law enforcement personnel, and the district attorneys in New York state, shall develop and implement a strategy for the suppression of gang related criminal activity. The strategy shall include, but not be limited to, identifying and prosecuting the core leadership of criminal street gangs who may be violating federal, state or local laws, and cooperating with all federal law enforcement agencies and appropriate prosecutorial agencies and law enforcement agencies in other states in the investigation and enforcement of our penal laws. District attorneys are authorized and directed to enter into collaborative agreements with prosecutorial and other governmental agencies and entities in supplier states in an effort to stop gang related criminal activities in New York state.
3. The commissioner shall award grant monies, as available, to district attorneys for programs which are designated to stop gang related criminal activities in New York state. To qualify for such grant
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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monies, a district attorney must submit an application to the commissioner in accordance with guidelines prescribed by the division. The application shall at a minimum:
(a) include an assessment of gang related criminal activities in the targeted area;
(b) offer a plan for state intervention and prevention of such activities; and
(c) preview a coordinated law enforcement strategy for suppression of gang related illegalities within the affected community. Funds awarded under this section may be used to supplement federal, state or local funds.
4. The division shall establish and maintain a gang clearinghouse as a central repository of information, coming into the possession of any state or local law enforcement entity, regarding all criminal gangs found to be operating within New York state. The division shall adopt and promulgate regulations prescribing reporting procedures for such state or local law enforcement agencies, including the form for reporting such information.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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