Requires the department of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tickets.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5092
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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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 requiring the depart-
ment of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets
and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tick-
ets
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-y
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-y. Desk appearance ticket report. The commissioner shall annual-
4 ly submit to the governor and the legislature and post to the depart-
5 ment's website a report regarding desk appearance tickets for the previ-
6 ous year. This report shall be both statewide and disaggregated by
7 county and shall include, but not be limited to, the number of desk
8 appearance tickets issued, the number of principals who did not appear
9 in court after being issued a desk appearance ticket, and the ratio of
10 desk appearance tickets issued to principals who did not appear in court
11 after being issued a desk appearance ticket.
12 § 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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