What's happening
This bill requires courts to collect and publicly report detailed, disaggregated pretrial data on bail, detention, and case outcomes.
Why it matters
Enables public scrutiny and policy evaluation. by requiring courts to publish detailed, disaggregated data on pretrial decisions (e.g., bail, detention, electronic monitoring) broken down by race, gender, county, charge, and outcome—helping to identify and address disparities or systemic biases.
Increases transparency in court operations. by mandating the release of granular information about pretrial practices, including lengths of detention, bail amounts, rates of release, and pretrial outcomes such as failures to appear and rearrests—data previously unavailable or inconsistently reported.
Empowers community advocates, researchers, and policymakers. with actionable data to assess the real-world impacts of bail and pretrial reform, measure the fairness and effectiveness of current practices, and inform future legislative or judicial changes.
Shines a light on potential financial inequities. by requiring reporting on fines, the number of people jailed for inability to pay, and the amounts involved—information that can drive debates about economic justice within the criminal legal system.
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Track Pretrial Justice Data
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History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 8441b
- Amend and recommit to judiciary
- Print number 8441a
- Amend and recommit to judiciary
- Referred to judiciary
- Referred to judiciary
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Require Pretrial Data Reporting
In Senate Committee · Judiciary · Sponsor Michael Gianaris
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8441--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 8, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the reporting of pretrial data by the chief administrator
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 216 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5. The chief administrator of the courts shall request and receive data from every court where bail decisions are made and include all points of data specified in this subdivision. Such courts shall track and record such data in every case to provide quarterly reports, in the aggregate, to the office of court administration in a form decided by the office of court administration, and to the public, in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision. The division of criminal justice services shall collect from all counties data related to pretrial detention and include related points of data specified in this section. The office of court administration, in conjunction with the division of criminal justice services, shall publish such data on the office of court administration's public website no later than the first of March annually. Such data shall include:
(a) the total number of cases in the system, both open and closed cases, disaggregated by county;
(b) the number of individuals released on recognizance, disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(c) the number of individuals released on conditions, specifying the number of people ordered to electronic monitoring, the number of cases
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13240-04-0
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in which the order for electronic monitoring was extended beyond sixty days and the median and mean length of time individuals spent on electronic monitoring, all disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(d) the number of individuals released on each form of bail, including the median and mean bail amounts ordered, disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(e) the number of individuals committed to the custody of a sheriff prior to trial either on bail or on remand, including the median and mean length of pretrial detention and the median and mean bail amount of persons committed to such custody, disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(f) the number of individuals who post bail and the median and mean length of time prior to bail payment, disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(g) the number of cases resulting in each disposition, including acquittals, dismissals, plea convictions, or trial convictions, disaggregated by race, gender, county, and top charge;
(h) the rates of failure to appear and rearrest, disaggregated by county, top charge, and case outcome;
(i) the rates of modifications to securing orders, including the type and extent of any modifications, disaggregated by race, gender, county, top charge, and case outcome;
(j) the median and mean length of time it takes for a case to reach disposition (the median and mean total time period between the filing of an accusatory instrument (or first court appearance where an appearance ticket has been filed) and the case disposition) disaggregated by county and top charge;
(k) median and mean amount of fines imposed by the court at the disposition of the case, disaggregated by race, gender, county, and top charge;
(l) total number of people who were incarcerated due to a failure to pay a fine imposed; and
(m) any other such information deemed necessary and appropriate by the office of court administration.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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