Requires inmate sexual harassment complaints made against department employees to be investigated by the attorney general and makes the findings and recommendations of the attorney general final and binding on the part of the department.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2640
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, CLARK, GALEF, JOHN, WEINSTEIN, GREENE --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, ORTIZ, PHEFFER --
read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the investigation of
sexual harassment complaints made by inmates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 139 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule to the contrary,
4 any grievance made by an individual in the custody of the department
5 alleging sexual harassment against an employee of the department shall
6 be investigated by the attorney general. The findings and recommenda-
7 tions of the attorney general shall be final and the department shall
8 take the necessary and required actions to implement such findings and
9 recommendations.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02033-02-9
