Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing incarcerated individual in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5170
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 23, 2023
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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
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 8 to read as follows:
3 8. An attorney representing an incarcerated individual in any appeal
4 of a disciplinary proceeding or in any lawsuit related to such a
5 proceeding shall be provided with a copy of the entire hearing record
6 but shall not redisclose such records or any information contained in
7 the records to any person not otherwise authorized by law to obtain
8 them. The name, identification number, housing location or work assign-
9 ment of any confidential informant may be redacted from such hearing
10 record.
11 § 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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