File #: Int 0469-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring a study and report on in-person altercations among youth and their associated activity on online platforms.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Children and Youth
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to requiring a study and report on in-person altercations among youth and their associated activity on online platforms
Sponsors: Nantasha M. Williams, Althea V. Stevens, Kevin C. Riley, Yusef Salaam, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of Youth and Community Development, in collaboration with the Director of the Mayor’s Office for Neighborhood Safety and the Prevention of Gun Violence, to study in-person altercations among individuals under 24 years of age who attend programs funded by the Department of Youth and Community Development. The Commissioner would be required to submit a report on the findings of the study to the Speaker of the Council and the Mayor. The report would have to include details of each altercation, details of any relevant activity on online platforms that led to the altercation, and whether a city agency responded to the altercation. The report would also have to include strategies the city can use to monitor the online activity of individuals under 24 years of age and to counsel these individuals on their online activity in order to prevent these kinds of altercations.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 469, 2. Int. No. 469, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 469

 

By Council Members Williams, Stevens, Riley, Salaam and Louis

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring a study and report on in-person altercations among youth and their associated activity on online platforms

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:

Agency. The term “agency” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision 1 of section 1-112 of the administrative code of the city of New York.

Commissioner. The term “commissioner” means the commissioner of youth and community development.

Department. The term “department” means the department of youth and community development.

Youth. The term “youth” means individuals under 24 years of age who attend programs funded by the department.

b. Study. The commissioner, in collaboration with the director of the mayor’s office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence, shall conduct a study on in-person verbal or physical altercations among youth. Through such study, the commissioner shall, as practicable, identify:

1. Each such altercation;

2. The reasons for each such altercation, including but not limited to any relevant activity on online platforms by youth who are involved in such altercation;

3. The response, if any, by an agency to each such altercation;

4. Strategies the department and other agencies can use to monitor and identify the activity of individuals under 24 years of age on online platforms in order to prevent in-person verbal or physical altercations among such individuals; and

5. Strategies the department and other agencies can use to counsel such individuals on their activity on online platforms in order to prevent such altercations.

c. Report. 1. No later than 6 months after the effective date of this local law, the commissioner, in collaboration with the director of the mayor’s office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence, shall submit to the speaker of the council and mayor a report on the findings of the study required by subdivision b of this section. Such report shall include a table in which each row references a specific in-person verbal or physical altercation identified under subdivision b of this section, indicated by a unique identification number. To the extent such information is available to the commissioner, each such row shall include, but not be limited to, the following information, set forth in separate columns:

(a) The unique identification number required under this subdivision;

(b) Details of the altercation;

(c) Details of any relevant activity on online platforms by youth that led to the altercation; and

(d) Whether an agency responded to the altercation.  

2. Such report shall also include the strategies identified under paragraphs 4 and 5 of subdivision b of this section.

3. All data in such report shall be reported in a machine-readable format.

4. No information that is required to be reported under this subdivision shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state, or local law relating to the privacy of any individual, or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of any law enforcement agency.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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