STATE OF NEW YORK
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3982
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, 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 requiring parole deci-
sions to be published on a website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 259-i of the executive law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) All appeal decisions shall be published within sixty days of the
4 determination on a publicly accessible website that includes a word-
5 searchable database and cumulative subject matter index of such deci-
6 sions. Such subject matter index shall be published annually in print
7 form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries. Copies of
8 such individual appeal decisions and subject matter index shall also be
9 made available upon written request to the board. Information which
10 would reveal confidential material that may not be released pursuant to
11 federal or state law shall be redacted from any such website, decision
12 and index.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
14 law and shall apply to appeal decisions rendered on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06681-02-7
