Committee on Criminal Justice

This bill would amend Local Law 145 of 2019, which established a task force to address policies related to the treatment and housing of transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals in the custody of the Department of Correction. The bill would amend the minimum duration date of the task force to be one year after the issuance of the fifth annual task force report, require that the task force self-elect a chair, require a Speaker appointee instead of a Council appointee as a task force member, and provide for ways that the Department of Correction and Correctional Health Services must substantively participate in the task force. The task force would be required to elect a chair within 90 days of the effective date of this bill. This bill would also make various amendments to update and clarify language.

This bill would amend Local Law 145 of 2019, which established a task force to address policies related to the treatment and housing of transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals in the custody of the Department of Correction. The bill would amend the minimum duration date of the task force to be one year after the issuance of the fifth annual task force report, require that the task force self-elect a chair, require a Speaker appointee instead of a Council appointee as a task force member, and provide for ways that the Department of Correction and Correctional Health Services must substantively participate in the task force. The task force would be required to elect a chair within 90 days of the effective date of this bill. This bill would also make various amendments to update and clarify language.

This bill would create a mental health services program at city jails for visitors under the age of eighteen to receive referrals for mental health services and, whenever practicable, receive mental health services.

This bill would create a mental health services program at city jails for visitors under the age of eighteen to receive referrals for mental health services and, whenever practicable, receive mental health services.

This bill would require the Department of Correction (“DOC”) to develop and implement a plan, in consultation with Correction Health Services (“CHS”) to address medical appointments during and after a lock-in. The plan would require DOC to provide CHS with adequate notice of an impending lock-in when possible and DOC and CHS to communicate during and after a lock-in. The plan would also require CHS to determine the order in which individuals who were not produced for a medical appointment due to a lock-in are produced, based on medical necessity, and DOC to continue to escort patients to medical appointments, whenever practicable. This bill would also require DOC to report when mental health units are locked down pursuant to a lock-in and how services were supplemented during that time, and CHS to report on the number of missed appointments due to a lock-in.

This bill would require the Department of Correction (“DOC”) to develop and implement a plan, in consultation with Correction Health Services (“CHS”) to address medical appointments during and after a lock-in. The plan would require DOC to provide CHS with adequate notice of an impending lock-in when possible and DOC and CHS to communicate during and after a lock-in. The plan would also require CHS to determine the order in which individuals who were not produced for a medical appointment due to a lock-in are produced, based on medical necessity, and DOC to continue to escort patients to medical appointments, whenever practicable. This bill would also require DOC to report when mental health units are locked down pursuant to a lock-in and how services were supplemented during that time, and CHS to report on the number of missed appointments due to a lock-in.