Provides that the division of criminal justice services collect statistics as to witnesses in court proceedings that have been threatened, attacked or killed and requires police chiefs, county sheriffs and the superintendent of the state police to submit such statistics and report to the division of criminal justice services on or before January 15th of each calendar year.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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88
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to compiling statistics
on court witnesses that have been threatened, attacked or killed
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-s
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-s. Report of threats and attacks against witnesses in court
4 proceedings. 1. On or before January fifteenth of each year, every chief
5 of a police department, every county sheriff and the superintendent of
6 state police shall submit a report to the division of every threat,
7 attack or death of a witness in a court proceeding investigated by his
8 or her law enforcement agency during the previous calendar year. Each
9 such report shall include such information as the division shall require
10 including, but not limited to, whether the threat, attack or death was
11 committed by a person who was a party to the court proceeding the
12 witness testified in, or was to have testified in or by a person associ-
13 ated with a person who was a party to the court proceeding the witness
14 testified in, or was to have testified in, and the county and city where
15 the threat, attack or death occurred.
16 2. On or before March first each year, the division shall compile into
17 a single statewide report all the reports received for the previous
18 calendar year, pursuant to subdivision one of this section. Such report
19 shall be submitted to the governor, temporary president of the senate
20 and the speaker of the assembly. The report required by this subdivision
21 shall include the number of threats, attacks and deaths committed
22 against witnesses in court proceedings statewide and in each city and
23 county, as well as whether or not the threat, attack or death was
24 committed by a person who was a party to the court proceeding the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 witness testified in, or was to have testified in or by a person associ-
2 ated with a person who was a party to the court proceeding the witness
3 testified in, or was to have testified in.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
5 it shall have become a law, provided that any procedures, rules and/or
6 regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its
7 effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before
8 such date.
