Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing inmate in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2674--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to confidential hearing
records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 138 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. An attorney representing an inmate in any appeal of a disciplinary
4 proceeding or in any lawsuit related to such a proceeding shall be
5 provided with a copy of the entire hearing record but shall not redis-
6 close such records or any information contained in the records to any
7 person not otherwise authorized by law to obtain them. The name, iden-
8 tification number, housing location or work assignment of any confiden-
9 tial informant may be redacted from such hearing record.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07208-03-9
