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A192Assembly2025-2026 SessionSame asS575

Set Strip Search Rules

Official title

“Provides for rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities”

Sponsor Eddie GibbsAD-68+14 co-sponsorsAffects Public Safety & Consumer Affairs
Status
In Assembly Committee
Correction
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
24%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Correction

What's happening

This bill requires New York correctional facilities to have at least two staff members present during any strip search.

Why it matters

  1. Aims to increase oversight and accountability. during strip searches, which may help deter staff misconduct, abuse, or false accusations by ensuring a witness is always present.

  2. Seeks to protect the rights and dignity of incarcerated individuals. by reducing opportunities for invasive searches to be conducted in isolation, which have historically been associated with trauma or humiliation.

  3. Requires correctional facilities to update policies and train staff. to comply with the new two-person rule, potentially impacting staffing needs, shift management, and operational costs.

  4. May serve as a safeguard for correctional staff as well,. providing corroboration for how searches are conducted and helping to resolve disputes or complaints that may arise from these procedures.

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Set Strip Search Rules

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Eddie Gibbs

Assembly Member · Assembly District 68

1 Multi-sponsor

History

  1. Referred to correction
  2. Referred to correction

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S575Senate

Set Strip Search Rules

In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Julia Salazar

Impact 5 · Moderate26% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

192

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)

January 8, 2025

Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS, SAYEGH, ZINERMAN, EPSTEIN, LEVENBERG, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR, LUCAS, HYNDMAN, TAPIA, MITAYNES, BURDICK, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows:

20. Promulgate rules and regulations establishing standard practices and procedures for the use of strip searches in correctional facilities. Such rules and regulations shall at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD00832-01-5

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