New York S 5243: Requires the county sheriff to oversee an annual jail staffing analysis and provide a report to the commission of corrections and community supervision

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S05243 Summary:

BILL NOS05243 

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SPONSORBAILEY

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Amd §500-b, Cor L; amd §264, Exec L

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Requires the county sheriff to oversee an annual jail staffing analysis and provide a report to the commission of corrections and community supervision and give the public the opportunity to view the statistics of their local county jail.

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BILL NOS05243 

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02/20/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5243

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 and the executive law, in relation to
 setting standards for jail staffing analysis; providing the public the
 opportunity to view the statistics of their local county jail

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of section 500-b of
 2 the correction law are renumbered subdivisions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14,
 3 and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
 4 8. (a) The county sheriff or such designee shall oversee an annual
 5 jail staffing analysis using the staffing analysis methodology developed
 6 by the National Institute of Corrections. Such analysis shall also
 7 consider the following criteria:
 8 (1) best practices in the prison rape elimination act and other state
 9 and federal guidelines regarding the ratio of uniformed officers to
 10 incarcerated people, where such ratio is calculated using the average
 11 officer headcount and average daily population from the previous calen-
 12 dar year;
 13 (2) officers who required medical treatment, were permanently disabled
 14 in the course of their duty, or placed on light duty pursuant to section
 15 two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law; and
 16 (3) efficient use of staff and resources that deploy uniformed offi-
 17 cers only to posts unsuitable for civilian staff.
 18 (b) The sheriff or designee shall submit its jail staffing analysis to
 19 the commission by April first of even-numbered years, and the commission
 20 shall provide written approval, or denial with comments, for all staff-
 21 ing analyses within ninety days of the submission of the analysis. If
 22 the commission denies the analysis, the sheriff or designee shall have
 23 thirty days from the receipt of any denial to remediate and resubmit its

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10021-01-5

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 1 staffing analysis, which the commission shall review and respond to
 2 within thirty days of receipt. The commission shall not grant variances
 3 to any counties regarding their annual jail staffing analysis. The
 4 commission shall publish all staffing analyses, remediations, and
 5 approvals in a prominent place on its website in a machine-readable
 6 format.
 7 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of section 500-b of the correction
 8 law, as added by chapter 907 of the laws of 1984 and as renumbered by
 9 section one of this act, is amended to read as follows:
 10 (a) [minimum staffing requirements] the appropriate level and deploy-
 11 ment of staff for each county jail; or
 12 § 3. Subdivision 10 of section 500-b of the correction law, as amended
 13 by chapter 574 of the laws of 1985 and the opening paragraph as amended
 14 by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021 and as renumbered by section one of
 15 this act, is amended to read as follows:
 16 10. The chief administrative officer shall forward to the commission a
 17 quarterly report relative to the housing of incarcerated individuals.
 18 Such updates shall also be posted conspicuously on the website of the
 19 commission and of the local correctional facility in a machine-readable
 20 format. The