2022 New York Laws
COR - Correction
Article 2 - Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
29 - Department Statistics.

§  29.  Department  statistics.  1.  The  department shall continue to
collect, maintain, and analyze statistical  and  other  information  and
data  with  respect  to  persons  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of the
department, including but  not  limited  to:  (a)  the  number  of  such
persons: placed in the custody of the department, assigned to a specific
department   program,   accorded   community  supervision  and  declared
delinquent,  recommitted  to  a  state  correctional  institution   upon
revocation   of   community  supervision,  or  discharged  upon  maximum
expiration of sentence; (b) the criminal history of  such  persons;  (c)
the  social,  educational,  and  vocational  circumstances  of  any such
persons; (d) the institutional and community  supervision  programs  and
the  behavior  of  such  persons;  and,  (e) the military background and
circumstances, if such person served in the United States armed  forces.
Provided,  however,  in  the  event  any  statistical information on the
ethnic  background  of  the  incarcerated  individual  population  of  a
correctional facility or facilities is collected by the department, such
statistical  information  shall  contain,  but  not  be  limited to, the
following ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian;  (iii)  American
Indian;  (iv)  Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)  Spanish speaking/Hispanic
which category shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  following
subcategories   consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto  Ricans;  (2)  Cubans;  (3)
Dominicans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.
  2. The commissioner shall make rules as to  the  privacy  of  records,
statistics  and  other information collected, obtained and maintained by
the department, its institutions or the board of parole and  information
obtained  in  an  official  capacity  by  officers, employees or members
thereof.
  3.  The  commissioner  shall  have  access  to  records  and  criminal
statistics  collected  by  the division of criminal justice services and
the commissioner of criminal  justice  services  shall  have  access  to
records   and   criminal  statistics  collected  by  the  department  of
corrections  and  community  supervision,   as   the   commissioner   of
corrections  and  community supervision and the commissioner of criminal
justice services shall mutually determine.
  4. (a)  The  commissioner  shall  provide  an  annual  report  to  the
legislature  on  the  staffing  of  correction  officers  and correction
sergeants in state correctional facilities. Such report  shall  include,
but  not  be  limited  to  the following factors: the number of security
posts on the current plot plan for each facility that have  been  closed
on  a  daily  basis,  by  correctional  facility security classification
(minimum,  medium  and  maximum);  the  number  of  security   positions
eliminated  by  correctional facility since two thousand compared to the
number of incarcerated individuals incarcerated in each such facility; a
breakdown by correctional  facility  security  classification  (minimum,
medium,  and  maximum)  of  the  staff hours of overtime worked, by year
since two thousand and  the  annual  aggregate  costs  related  to  this
overtime.  In  addition, such report shall be delineated by correctional
facility  security  classification,  the  annual  number   of   security
positions  eliminated,  the  number  of closed posts and amount of staff
hours of overtime accrued as well as the overall  overtime  expenditures
that resulted. Such report shall be provided to the chairs of the senate
finance,  assembly  ways  and  means,  senate  crime and corrections and
assembly correction committees, and posted on the department's  website,
annually by February first.
  (b)  Such  report  shall also include but not be limited to: the total
number of correctional facilities in operation which are  maintained  by
the  department, the security level of each facility, the number of beds
at each facility as of December  thirty-first  of  the  prior  year,  as

classified  by  the department, and the number of empty beds, if any, by
such classification as of such date.