Amd §259-i, Exec L (as proposed in A. 3053 and S. 3982)
Requires board of parole administrative appeal findings and recommendations to be published on a website with a word-searchable database and provided to correctional facility law libraries on a quarterly basis.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8960
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring board of
parole administrative appeal findings and recommendations to be
published on a website and provided to correctional facility law
libraries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 259-i of the
2 executive law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the
3 executive law relating to requiring parole decisions to be published on
4 a website, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 3053 and S. 3982,
5 is amended to read as follows:
6 (c) All board of parole administrative appeal [decisions] findings and
7 recommendations shall be published within [sixty] one hundred twenty
8 days of the determination on a publicly accessible website that includes
9 a word-searchable database [and cumulative subject matter index of such
10 decisions. Such subject matter index shall be published annually in
11 print form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries]. The
12 department of corrections and community supervision shall provide elec-
13 tronic or print copies of such findings and recommendations to all
14 correctional facility law libraries on a quarterly basis. Copies of
15 such individual [appeal decisions and subject matter index] findings and
16 recommendations shall also be made available upon written request to the
17 [board] department of corrections and community supervision. Informa-
18 tion which would reveal confidential material that may not be released
19 pursuant to federal or state law shall be redacted from any such
20 website[, decision and index] or findings and recommendations.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
22 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the executive law
23 relating to requiring parole decisions to be published on a website, as
24 proposed in legislative bills numbers A.3053 and S.3982, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06681-03-8
