Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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192
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS, SAYEGH, ZINERMAN, EPSTEIN, LEVENBERG,
GONZALEZ-ROJAS, REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR, LUCAS, HYNDMAN,
TAPIA, MITAYNES, BURDICK, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to rules and regulations
for strip searches in correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
3 20. Promulgate rules and regulations establishing standard practices
4 and procedures for the use of strip searches in correctional facilities.
5 Such rules and regulations shall at a minimum include a requirement that
6 no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
9 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
10 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
11 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00832-01-5
