Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include accompanying staff of legislative members and members of the department of corrections and community supervision requested by a legislative member.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9580
IN SENATE
October 17, 2022
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to who may visit local
correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by chapter
2 291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 500-j. Who may visit local correctional facilities. The following
4 persons may visit at pleasure all local correctional facilities: The
5 governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and
6 attorney-general, members of the legislature and their accompanying
7 staff as requested by the member of the legislature if the member
8 requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not
9 impact upon the local correctional facility's ability to supervise,
10 manage and control its facilities as determined by the sheriff of the
11 county, or in the counties within the city of New York, the commissioner
12 of such city, or in the county of Westchester, the commissioner of
13 correction of such county, judges of the court of appeals, justices of
14 the supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every cler-
15 gyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the reli-
16 gious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the county in
17 which such facility is located. No other person not otherwise authorized
18 by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms of a local correctional
19 facility in which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations
20 as the sheriff of the county, or in counties within the city of New
21 York, the commissioner of correction of such city, or in the county of
22 Westchester, the commissioner of correction of such county shall
23 prescribe.
24 § 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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