STATE OF NEW YORK
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7737
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 6, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring data report-
ing by the chief administrator to delineate specific information
relating to county, city, town, village and district courts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judi-
2 ciary law, as amended by chapter 323 of the laws of 1987, the closing
3 paragraph as amended by chapter 349 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 (e) Prepare forms and compile data on family offenses, proceedings or
6 actions in all courts, including county, city, town, village and
7 district courts, including but not limited to the following information:
8 (i) the offense alleged;
9 (ii) the relationship of the alleged offender to the petitioner or
10 complainant;
11 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted, whether
12 village, town, city, county, district, family, criminal or supreme
13 court;
14 (iv) the disposition; and
15 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor.
16 In executing this requirement, the chief administrator may adopt rules
17 requiring appropriate law enforcement or criminal justice agencies to
18 identify actions and proceedings involving family offenses and, with
19 respect to such actions and proceedings, to report, in such form and
20 manner as the chief administrator shall prescribe, the information spec-
21 ified herein.
22 The chief administrator of the courts shall adopt rules to facilitate
23 record sharing and other communication among the supreme, criminal and
24 family courts, subject to applicable provisions of the domestic
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 relations law, criminal procedure law and the family court act pertain-
2 ing to the confidentiality, expungement and sealing of records, where
3 such courts exercise concurrent jurisdiction over family offense
4 proceedings or proceedings involving orders of protection.
5 § 2. The opening paragraphs of (u-1) and (v-1) of subdivision 2 of
6 section 212 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 102 of the laws of
7 2020, are amended to read as follows:
8 Compile and publish data on misdemeanor offenses in all courts, disag-
9 gregated by county, city, town, village, or district court, including
10 the following information:
11 Compile and publish data on violations, to the greatest extent practi-
12 cable, in all courts, disaggregated by county, city, town, village, or
13 district court, including the following information:
14 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law is amended by
15 adding three new paragraphs (cc), (cc-1) and (dd) to read as follows:
16 (cc) Prepare forms and compile and publish data on eviction filings,
17 proceedings or actions in all courts, disaggregated by county, city,
18 town, village, or district court, including but not limited to the
19 following information:
20 (i) the total number of eviction filings in each court by month;
21 (ii) the total number of holdover proceedings versus nonpayment
22 proceedings;
23 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted;
24 (iv) the disposition of the proceeding, including whether a warrant of
25 eviction was issued; and
26 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor.
27 (cc-1) Include the information required by paragraph (cc) of this
28 subdivision in the annual report submitted to the legislature and the
29 governor pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision one of this section.
30 The chief administrator shall also make the information required by
31 paragraph (cc) of this subdivision available to the public by posting it
32 on the website of the office of court administration and shall update
33 such information on a monthly basis. The information shall be posted in
34 alphanumeric form that can be digitally transmitted or processed and not
35 in portable document format or scanned copies of original documents.
36 (dd) In addition to the data reporting required under paragraphs (e),
37 (u-1), (v-1), (cc), and (cc-1) of this subdivision, wherever the chief
38 administrator is required to compile, report, and make other court data
39 publicly available, or wherever the chief administrator opts to require
40 such collection, reporting, and public availability of data, this shall
41 include data from all county, city, village, town and district courts,
42 disaggregated by locality.
43 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
44 it shall have become a law.
