NY Corr L § 29 (2021)
2021 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.