STATE OF NEW YORK
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4588
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to retaining
peace officer status for parole officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 23 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as amended by section 70 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of
3 the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 23. Parole officers or warrant officers in the department of
5 corrections and community supervision and offender rehabilitation coor-
6 dinators whose job functions include the following: assigned to one or
7 more of the state's correctional facilities; provide guidance to an
8 assigned caseload of incarcerated individuals and assess needs, prepare
9 evaluations, and prepare eligible incarcerated individuals for release
10 into the community; make recommendations to the board of parole regard-
11 ing incarcerated individual's readiness for release; perform both social
12 work and law enforcement functions; trained in use of firearms, handle
13 and discharge firearms.
14 § 2. 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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