Establishes the parole board accountability act which requires incarcerated individuals who are released on parole, via a vote that is not unanimous, be placed in the community where one of the two board members primarily reside; establishes the procedure of which of the two board member's community the releasee shall be released to.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3552
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the
parole board accountability act.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "parole board accountability act".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 259-u to
4 read as follows:
5 § 259-u. Parole board accountability. 1. Where the board votes that
6 an incarcerated individual be released on parole, but such vote is not
7 unanimous, the department shall direct such releasee be released to a
8 shelter, halfway house, or a transitional residential facility in the
9 community of one of the two board members who voted in favor of the
10 releasee primarily reside.
11 2. The commissioner shall rely on a coin flip to determine which of
12 the two board member's community the releasee shall be released to. Such
13 coin flip shall be conducted and made publicly available via live stream
14 on the department's website.
15 3. Upon the results of such coin flip pursuant to subdivision two of
16 this section, the department shall place such releasee in a shelter,
17 halfway house, or a transitional residential facility that is geograph-
18 ically closest to the board member's primary residence who was chosen
19 pursuant to such coin flip.
20 § 3. 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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