NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6242
SPONSOR: Brown K TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to creating a crime data
clearinghouse within the department of criminal justice services
PURPOSE:
Creates a crime data clearinghouse within the department of criminal
justice services.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x.
Section 2: Identifies effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
During the Joint Legislative Budget hearings, the Commissioner of the
department of criminal justice services indicated that the state has no
one method of measuring crime statistics, but rather using three differ-
ent systems, including one that is approximately one hundred years old.
Therefore, the police departments, sheriff departments and state police
do not use one uniform system for entering crime statistics. In addi-
tion, some of the systems are antiquated for today's modern crime fight-
ing. This bill would establish on central crime data clearinghouse with
the department of criminal justice services to house all crime data.
This shall include data collected by the department of criminal justice
services and analyze in order to allow law enforcement to determine
trends and allocate resources accordingly.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6242
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating a crime data
clearinghouse within the department of criminal justice services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-x. Crime data clearinghouse. There is hereby established within
4 the division a crime data clearinghouse which shall house all crime data
5 collected by the division, the attorney general, department of
6 corrections and community supervision, commission of correction, depart-
7 ment of environmental conservation, department of mental hygiene, gover-
8 nor's office, and any other department, division, board, bureau, commis-
9 sion, office, agency, authority or public corporation of the state.
10 Each department, division, board, bureau, commission, office, agency,
11 authority or public corporation of the state shall provide any and all
12 crime data collected to the crime data clearinghouse. The division shall
13 annually analyze all data within the crime data clearinghouse and submit
14 a report to the legislature and the governor with findings, trends, and
15 any other information the commissioner deems appropriate.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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