Requires notification of the press and public within twenty-four hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision by department press release and by posting on the department's public website.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7607--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
July 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to notifying the press
and public of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other
individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections
and community supervision
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 17 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 17. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within twenty-four
4 hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
5 occurring in the custody of the department, the department shall notify
6 the press and the public of such death by department press release and
7 by posting on the department's public website.
8 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read
9 as follows:
10 § 511. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within twenty-four
11 hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
12 under the custody of the department, the department, the sheriff of the
13 county, or in counties within the city of New York the commissioner of
14 correction of such city, or in the county of Westchester the commission-
15 er of correction of such county shall notify the press and the public of
16 such death by press release and by posting on the locality's public
17 website.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11798-02-3
