NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5190
SPONSOR: Lemondes TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to the identification of
correction officers
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To identify correction officers by their badge number instead of their
names.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the correction law by adding a new section no longer
requiring correction officers to display their names. Correction offi-
cers will now be identified by their badge number alone.
Section 2 provides the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill intends to improve safety for corrections offices working with
our prisoner population by removing the officers name tags and having
them identified by badge number only. This enhances personal security
for the officers by making it more difficult for inmates or their agents
to surveil officers and their families on and off duty. This is espe-
cially important for female officers who often experience higher levels
of harassment from inmates than male colleagues. Although this measure
is not foolproof, it will make it exceptionally more difficult for
inmates to obtain personal information about officers; thereby reducing
risk to officers.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
05/24/24 referred to correction
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixteenth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5190
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the identification of
correction officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 22-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 22-b. Identification of correction officers. No correction officer
4 employed in a correctional facility shall be required to wear or display
5 a tag displaying the correction officer's name, in whole or in part.
6 Correction officers employed in such facilities shall be identified by a
7 tag or other display of the officer's badge number only.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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