File #: Int 0037-2010    Version: Name: Requiring the department of juvenile justice to report on demographic data.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Juvenile Justice
On agenda: 2/11/2010
Enactment date: 5/18/2010 Law number: 2010/012
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of juvenile justice to report on demographic data.
Sponsors: Sara M. Gonzalez, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Diana Reyna, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, James Sanders, Jr., Robert Jackson, Helen D. Foster, Elizabeth S. Crowley, Daniel J. Halloran III, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Erik Martin Dilan, Jumaane D. Williams, Thomas White, Jr., Stephen T. Levin, Deborah L. Rose
Council Member Sponsors: 22
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 37 - 2/11/10, 2. Committee Report 4/21/10, 3. Hearing Testimony 4/21/10, 4. Hearing Transcript 4/21/10, 5. Committee Report 4/26/10, 6. Hearing Transcript 4/26/10, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4/29/10, 9. Local Law 12
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
5/19/2010ASara M. Gonzalez City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/18/2010ASara M. Gonzalez Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/18/2010ASara M. Gonzalez Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/2010ASara M. Gonzalez City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/2010ASara M. Gonzalez City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2010ASara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Juvenile Justice Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/11/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/11/2010*Sara M. Gonzalez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 37-A
 
By Council Members Gonzalez, Brewer, Fidler, James, Koppell, Lander, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Reyna, Rodriguez, Sanders Jr., Jackson, Foster, Crowley, Halloran, Arroyo, Dilan, Williams, White, Levin and Rose
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of juvenile justice to report on demographic data.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter to read as follows:
Chapter 2
Department of Juvenile Justice
§9-201        Demographic Data.
9-201 Demographic Data. a. Beginning no later than September 30th of the year of enactment of the local law that added this section and on or before September 30th of each year thereafter, the department of juvenile justice shall post a report on the department website regarding the total number of admissions to detention facilities in the previous fiscal year disaggregated by the following:  (i) age; (ii) gender; (iii) race; (iv) zip code of residence, except that for a number between one and five admissions from one zip code, the number shall be replaced with a symbol;  (v) for youth remanded to a detention facility by a court, the most serious charged offense on the court petition, complaint or indictment at the time the department assumed custody; and (vi) for youth brought to detention by police, whether the top arrest charge was a misdemeanor or a felony at the time the department assumed custody.
b. Beginning no later than September 30th of the year of enactment of the local law that added this section and on or before September 30th of each year thereafter, the department of juvenile justice shall post a report on the department website regarding the average daily population in secure and non-secure detention facilities in the previous fiscal year and the number of youth admitted during the reporting period who spent time either in non-secure detention only, secure detention only, or both non-secure and secure detention, during the reporting period, disaggregated by the following:  (i) age; (ii) gender; (iii) race; (iv) zip code of residence except that for a number between one and five admissions from one zip code, the number shall be replaced with a symbol;  (v) for youth remanded to a detention facility by a court, the most serious charged offense on the court petition, complaint or indictment at the time the department assumed custody; and (vi) for youth brought to detention by police, whether the top arrest charge was a misdemeanor or a felony at the time the department assumed custody.
 
§2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law.
 
 
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