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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter I - General Provisions › Part 8 - Release Of Information To Inmate Families And The News Media › Section 8.3 - News media

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Upon request by the news media, the following information
				  from an inmate record shall be made available unless otherwise prohibited by
				  statute or regulation: name, date of birth, birthplace, place of previous
				  residence, physical description, commitment information, present facility in
				  which housed, departmental actions regarding confinement and release, and when
				  related to a newsworthy event, institutional work assignments, general state of
				  health, and an occurrence of death. Other information shall only be released to
				  the news media at the discretion of the commissioner or his designee, giving
				  consideration (a) to safety and security, (b) to the protection of the privacy
				  of the inmate and his right to a fair trial or retrial, and (c) to the public's
				  right to know, unless otherwise provided by statute or regulation. News media
				  shall make requests for information to the office of public information.
Note:
Pursuant to section 677  of the County Law, findings and
				  conclusions regarding the cause of an inmate's death may be requested from the
				  office of the coroner/medical examiner of the county in which the death
				  occurred.
Pursuant to section 677    of
					 the County Law, findings and conclusions regarding the cause of an inmate's
					 death may be requested from the office of the coroner/medical examiner of the
					 county in which the death occurred.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 50 - Officials Of State Correctional Facilities › Section 50.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
In accordance with Criminal Procedure Law, section 1.20,
				  subdivision 33, and section 2.10, subdivision 25, the following are hereby
				  designated as officials of the Department of Corrections and Community
				  Supervision:
(a) the commissioner;
(b) executive deputy commissioner;
(c) deputy commissioner;
(d) associate commissioner and deputy commissioner
				and counsel;
(e) [Reserved]
(f) assistant commissioner;
(g) superintendents;
(h) deputy superintendents;
(i) chief of investigations;
(j) investigators;
(k) correction captains;
(l) correction lieutenants;
(m) correction sergeants;
(n) assistant chief of investigations;
(o) assistant deputy superintendents;
(p) community correction center
				assistants;
(q) correctional services
				training academy director and assistant director;
(r) facility operations specialists;
(s) [Reserved]
(t) coordinator, correctional services employee
				investigations;
(u) correctional services
				employee investigators;
(v) senior
				correctional services employee investigators;
(w) [Reserved]
(x) correction officers assigned to a training
				academy in the department or the central office of the department;
(y) the director of the Correction Emergency
				Response Team (C.E.R.T.);
(z) first
				deputy superintendent;
(aa) director and
				assistant director of special housing and inmate disciplinary procedures;
(ab) institution safety officers;
(ac) [Reserved]
(ad) correctional security technical services
				specialist;
(ae) director of human
				resources management;
(af)
				[Reserved]
(ag) director and assistant
				director of the crisis intervention unit;
(ah) assistant regional director of parole
				operations;
(ai) correctional services
				fire and safety coordinator;
(aj) senior
				warrant and transfer officer;
(ak)
				senior parole officer and senior parole officer special services;
(al) supervising parole officer and supervising
				parole officer special services;
(am)
				regional director parole operations;
(an)
				supervising regional director;
(ao)
				assistant deputy director parole operations ; and
(ap) director of Prison Rape Elimination Act
				compliance.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.1 - Divulgence of information

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Information relative to institutional or departmental affairs
				  and individual inmates must be authorized and given out by the commissioner or
				  his or her designee, provided the divulgence of such information does not tend
				  to defeat the ends of justice or adversely affect the interests of the
				  department. Inquiries addressed by persons outside the department to any
				  employee concerning inmates individually or in general, or offering employment
				  to an inmate, or inquiring about employment in the institution, or for any
				  other information about the institution or the department, shall not be
				  answered by the employee but referred to the superintendent.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.2 - Requests to photograph institutions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Requests received by superintendents for permission to take
				  photographs or make pictures, either still or motion, of any correctional
				  facility or of any of the activities therein, shall be forwarded to the
				  commissioner or his or her designee. Such requests will not be approved where
				  the pictures or photographs are to be used for commercial purposes unrelated to
				  the gathering of news.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.3 - Taking nonemployees to institution departments

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No employee shall be permitted to escort any person not
				  employed by the department to any of the institutional departments without
				  first being directed by, or having obtained the approval of, the
				  superintendent.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.4 - Control of visitors by employee

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
An employee assigned to conduct visitors through the
				  correctional facility shall require them to refrain from giving anything to or
				  receiving anything from inmates; from loud talking or boisterous conduct; and
				  from loitering along the way or separating themselves from the group or the
				  employee.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.5 - Restrictions on visitors

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Persons visiting institutions shall not be permitted to know
				  the identity of inmates or their past histories; nor to communicate with them;
				  nor shall they be permitted to handle tools, working materials, or other
				  similar objects or appurtenances. Exception to this rule shall be taken when
				  visitors are on official business, or have permission of the commissioner to
				  proceed to the contrary. Unless the exception to this rule applies, visitors
				  shall be taken only to such places as may be designated by the
				  superintendent.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.6 - Employees not to accept tips

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Employees shall not accept tips or gifts of any kind from
				  visitors for any official service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.7 - Entertainment fees prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No fee shall be collected, either directly or indirectly, for
				  admission of the public or inmates to athletic games and events, theatricals,
				  or any other type of entertainment held in the institutions. Approval of the
				  commissioner or his or her designee must be obtained by the superintendent
				  before the public may be admitted to any program, exhibit or other activity of
				  an institution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.8 - Superintendent may accept gifts and donations

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
With the approval of the commissioner, the superintendent may
				  accept gifts or donations offered to the department or institutions by
				  individuals or legitimate organizations interested in the welfare and
				  improvement of inmates, if the nature of such gifts or donations makes it
				  possible to use them for the general welfare of the inmates, and if such
				  donations do not in any manner obligate the institution or the department to
				  the donor.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.9 - Fingerprinting employees

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
All employees shall be fingerprinted and subjected to a
				  criminal history inquiry for the purposes of obtaining background information
				  pertinent to the security of operations, verifying information on employment
				  applications, and obtaining notification of subsequent arrests. Fingerprinting
				  will be conducted and processed in accordance with departmental
				  directive.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.10 - Congregating at entrance prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No persons shall be allowed to congregate inside or outside
				  the entrance, nor at any point contiguous to it, if the security and safety of
				  the institution are thereby threatened.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.11 - Department guidelines and policy for release of information to news media

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The objective of this policy is to provide accurate
				  information, and to be cooperatively responsive to requests, about department
				  policies, programs and other areas of public interest in an effort to keep the
				  public fully informed of department activities, while at the same time
				  providing inmates and parolees under department supervision their right to
				  privacy.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.12 - Information sources

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Superintendents of correctional facilities may at times have
				  responsibility for release of information and response to inquiries from news
				  media representatives pertaining to their respective facilities at the
				  direction of the office of public information. Information pertaining to
				  overall departmental operations, policies, procedures, etc., will be released
				  or responded to through the office of public information in Albany, New
				  York.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.13 - Inquiries

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
News media inquiries will be answered fully, frankly, and as
				  quickly as possible depending upon the situation, accessibility and
				  availability of required information.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.14 - Release of inmate data

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The release of records or information pertaining to
				  individual inmates or former inmates shall be provided to the media (i.e., a
				  representative of a newspaper, periodical, news service, or radio and
				  television network or station) in accordance with section
				  8.3  of this Title. No
				  other information shall be provided to the media except as provided for in the
				  above section. In cases involving inmates and former inmates facing possible
				  prosecution on new charges, details of past criminal history and other
				  information which might impair their rights to a fair trial will not be
				  released to the press.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.15 - Media interviews

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				Inmates confined in a facility under the Department of Correctional Services of
				the State of New York have a limited constitutional right to be visited and
				interviewed by representatives of the news media.
(b) Representatives of the news media have a
				qualified right to visit and interview an inmate confined in a correctional
				facility who wishes to be visited and/or interviewed.
(c) Inmate eligibility.
(1) Inmates who are in general confinement
				status may, at the discretion of the commissioner, receive face-to-face media
				interviews.
(2) Inmates who are in
				administrative segregation status may, at the discretion of the commissioner,
				substitute one media interview for their one non-legal visit per
				week.
(3) Inmates in pre-hearing
				confinement status or serving a disciplinary confinement sanction, which
				includes disciplinary status special housing units and keeplock, will not be
				approved for media interviews regardless of where they are housed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.16 - Use of names and photographs

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				Identification by name will not be allowed unless the individual agrees to such
				use and signs a consent form (reference NYSDOCS Directive #0401, Page 7, Media
				Interview Consent form that is available on the department's website at,
				http://www.docs.state.ny.us/directives.html) for such use of name. Such consent
				form will be provided by the Department of Correctional Services and is in
				addition to any consent form that may be provided by the news media
				representative. The consent form signed by persons under 18 must be endorsed by
				a parent or guardian before the use of name will be allowed.
(b) Identifiable photographs of inmates will
				not be allowed unless the individual agrees to be photographed and signs a
				consent form for such photograph and its use. Such consent form will be
				provided by the Department of Correctional Services and is in addition to any
				consent form that may be provided by the news media representative. Photographs
				of facilities will be allowed, providing no identifiable inmate is shown in any
				of the photographs. Persons under 18 must have their consent form endorsed by a
				parent or guardian before the use of a photograph will be permitted.
(c) A photographer accompanying a reporter
				need not be regularly employed by the publication, station or news service, but
				he must be engaged by it and specifically assigned as the official
				photographer. A photographer not accompanied by a reporter must meet all of the
				criteria of a bona fide reporter.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.17 - Recording of interviews

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
With the written consent of the inmate, interviews may be
				  recorded under the same conditions as the use of names.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 51 - Public Contacts Of Institutions And Employees › Section 51.20 - Emergency situations

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
In situations of an emergency nature, such as escapes,
				  disturbances, etc., the cooperation of the news media is requested in that
				  inquiries and information interviews be reasonably limited. The public
				  information officer or his or her designee will issue periodic updating reports
				  and will be available for interviews as he/she deems necessary. Emergency
				  situations call for extensive effort on the part of the entire agency. While
				  every effort will be made to keep information current, the emergency of the
				  situation must be respected and the cooperation of the news media will be
				  appreciated. When a correctional facility is placed under a "state of
				  emergency," news media access will be limited consistent with the criteria
				  established in section
				  3.20 
				  of this Title. Approval and designated areas shall be at the discretion of the
				  commissioner or his or her designee.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.3 - Use of employment identification

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The wearing, possessing or carrying of a shield, or any other
				  article of any description, indicating employment by the department, with the
				  exception of the official identification card and the uniform cap shield when
				  worn on the cap, is prohibited with the following exceptions. When an employee
				  is assigned in civilian clothes to conduct official investigations, to return
				  an escaped prisoner, or to accompany inmates on sick visits, funerals,
				  appearances in court and transfers, he will be assigned a pocket shield or
				  carry a cap shield in lieu thereof. Employees in possession of a cap shield
				  shall surrender it to the warden when their services are
				  terminated.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.4 - Pecuniary interests by employee prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No employee shall have a pecuniary interest, directly or
				  indirectly, in any business wherein the department or an institution is a party
				  in interest; nor shall he receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, commission,
				  gratuity or present from any person or corporation furnishing supplies to or
				  doing business for or with the institution or the department.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.5 - No work for employee to be done in institution

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No work shall be done in any shop or department of an
				  institution for any employee or other person; nor shall any property or
				  material be delivered from any shop or department to any employee or other
				  person except by written order of the warden.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.6 - Treatment of inmates by employees prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No employee other than an institutional physician, or a
				  licensed or certified health practitioner acting within the scope of his
				  employment and under the direction of a physician, shall diagnose any illness,
				  ailment or injury of any inmate, or prescribe or administer any treatment or
				  medicine, except in the case of an emergency requiring first aid, which shall
				  in such emergency be administered as expeditiously as possible by any qualified
				  person present.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.8 - Group interviews of inmates

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
At no time shall a group of inmates be conducted for
				  interviews before any person or group of persons and brought into their
				  presence or in proximity to them, in such a manner as to make it possible
				  through concerted action for the inmates to inflict bodily injury upon the
				  interviewers, to make them hostages, to create disturbance, or to effect
				  escape.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.9 - Employees to remain with inmates

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Employees accompanying inmates out of the institution shall
				  remain with them until they are turned over to another authorized
				  employee.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.10 - Courtesy required of visiting room supervisor

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The employee in charge of the visiting room shall be
				  courteous to visitors and at the same time alert and
				  vigilant.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.11 - Search of visiting room

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The visiting room shall be searched to see that nothing which
				  might be removed by visitors has been concealed therein.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.14 - Departing inmates to precede employee

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No inmate or group of inmates which is accompanied by an
				  employee of the institution or of the department, or by any other civilian,
				  shall be permitted to pass through the exit gate unless the inmate or inmates
				  walk in front of the official or employee, thereby indicating that such
				  civilians or employees are not being held as hostages.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.15 - Inmates not to be passengers on departing conveyances

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No car, truck or other conveyance whether driven by an
				  employee, inmate truck driver, or any other person, shall be permitted to pass
				  through a gate leading from the prison proper, or through riot fence gates
				  leading from institutional grounds with one or more inmates as passengers. Such
				  passengers must walk through the gate in such a manner as indicates that the
				  driver is not held a hostage. If it appears that the driver is being held as a
				  hostage, the gatekeeper is absolutely forbidden to allow the gate to be opened
				  regardless of any order from any official to the contrary.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.16 - Entrance supervisor to keep records of entering vehicles and contents

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The employee in charge of the entrance shall closely examine
				  and keep a record of wagons, automobiles, trucks, or other vehicles and their
				  contents; and boxes and receptacles of any kind, or packages and the contents
				  thereof, which are to be brought into or taken out of the institution. Such
				  search shall be made before any of said vehicles or their contents, boxes,
				  receptacles, packages, and their contents shall be brought into the
				  institution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.17 - Search of entering and departing civilians

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Civilian workmen employed on construction projects within the
				  institution, and all other persons not employed in the department, who enter or
				  leave the institution, shall be thoroughly searched. Such search is to include
				  lunch boxes, lunch packages, tool receptacles, or any other packages or
				  bundles.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.18 - Association with inmates and criminals prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) An employee shall not knowingly engage in
				any conversation, dealing, transaction, association or relationship with any
				inmate, former inmate, parolee, former parolee, or visitor, friend, or relative
				of same or with any criminal or any other person engaged in unlawful activity
				in any manner or form which is not necessary or proper for the discharge of the
				employee's duties.
(b) An employee
				shall immediately report to his supervisor any attempt by a person identified
				in subdivision (a) of this section to engage him in a conversation, dealing,
				transaction, association or relationship in any manner or form which is not
				necessary or proper for the discharge of the employee's duties.
(c) Exceptions to the above restrictions can
				only be authorized by designated officials of the department.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.19 - Employees may prefer charges

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Charges may be preferred by any employee of the department.
				  Such charges must be made in writing, signed by the person preferring them and
				  sent to the warden of the institution in which the accused is employed. In case
				  a person not in the employ of the department shall make a complaint or bring
				  charges against an employee, such charges must also be made to the warden and
				  signed by the complainant.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 52 - Inmates, Employees And The Public › Section 52.20 - Attire of inmates outside institution

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
When granted permission to visit a sick relative or to attend
				  a funeral of a member of his immediate family, the inmate shall appear in
				  civilian clothes. When appearing in court he shall appear in the prescribed
				  uniform of the institution unless otherwise ordered by the court, or unless the
				  warden has reasonable grounds for believing that the inmate may be discharged
				  from custody as a result of his appearance in court, in which case he shall
				  appear in civilian clothes.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.1 - Solicitors must obtain permission

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Solicitors, salesmen, or other persons who are not on
				  institutional or departmental business shall obtain permission from the warden
				  before being admitted to an institution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.2 - Requests for group visitation

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Group visitations inspired by morbid curiosity shall not be
				  permitted. Requests from responsible persons and organizations outside the
				  department for permission to visit shall be made to the warden who shall
				  forward them with his recommendation to the commissioner.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.3 - No interviews after office hours

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No person shall be permitted to interview an inmate after
				  office hours except by permission of the warden or principal
				  keeper.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.5 - Exchange of articles between visitor and inmate

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Close observation shall be maintained to prevent any article
				  being passed to or from a visitor and inmate, especially when they greet each
				  other. Papers or other articles to be exchanged between a visitor and inmate
				  must first be inspected and approved by the principal keeper.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.6 - Report of entering nonemployees

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The names of persons not employees of the institution who are
				  allowed to enter shall be ascertained and reported. Persons who are not
				  employees shall leave the institution through the same entrance by which they
				  were admitted, and shall be so informed at the time of
				  admittance.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.7 - Persons seeking admission must report business

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The business of persons seeking admittance, and the names of
				  employees with whom they wish to transact business shall be
				  ascertained.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.8 - Restrictions on entrance of nonemployees

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Any person not connected with the institution or designated
				  by law as an official visitor shall not be permitted to enter unless he can
				  show that he has proper business to transact or is provided with an official
				  pass or other proper authority.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.9 - Intoxicated persons prohibited

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Any person who is under the influence of intoxicants, or who
				  gives indication that he is not in full possession of his normal mental
				  faculties shall be refused admission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.10 - Permitted visitors during disturbances or riots

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In times of disturbances, uprising or riot, only the
				  following persons shall be permitted to enter the institution: employees of the
				  institution; State or local police; personnel of the National Guard or the
				  United States Army; firemen; the sheriff and his deputies; the district
				  attorney and members of his staff; local members of the clergy; physicians;
				  those persons permitted to enter the institution by law, and such other persons
				  as may be designated by the commissioner.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.11 - Vehicle drivers to produce license

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Any driver of a motor vehicle which enters the institution
				  shall be required to produce his driver's license. The name of the driver and
				  the number of his license shall be recorded for possible future reference.
				  Likewise, the license number of the motor vehicle shall be
				  recorded.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.12 - Employee to accompany entering vehicles

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
When a vehicle enters the institution, driven or operated by
				  any person not employed by the institution, it shall not be allowed to proceed
				  beyond the gatelock unless it is accompanied by an employee who shall remain
				  with the vehicle until it departs from the institution. The vehicle and the
				  person or persons within it shall be subjected to a thorough
				  search.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.13 - Gate supervisor may search persons

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The employee in charge of an entrance may at any time when it
				  is deemed necessary in order to maintain safety and security of the
				  institution, search the person of any official or employee or of any other
				  person who may enter or leave the institution.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.14 - Record of visitors allowed by law

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When visits are made in accordance with the provisions of
				  section 146  of the Correction Law, as well as in
				  emergencies, entry shall be made in a permanent record as to the name of the
				  visitor, the purpose of the visit, and the time of beginning and termination of
				  it.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.15 - Visits to patients

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
No visits to patients shall be permitted without the approval
				  of the warden and physician.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 53 - Outsiders Visiting Or Applying For Entrance To Institutions › Section 53.16 - Violation of visiting rules

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Any person who may refuse to abide by any of the rules
				  concerning the method and manner of entering or leaving the institution shall
				  not be permitted to pass. The employee in charge of the entrance shall seize
				  and detain the person of anyone who shall violate, or attempt to violate any of
				  such rules and he shall immediately report such seizure to the
				  warden.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 57 - Firearms › Section 57.1 - General provisions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) This
				Part is promulgated to implement the requirements of chapter 843 of the Laws of
				1980 with respect to reporting requirements and special duties of peace
				officers of this agency defined in section
				50.1  of this Chapter
				and section 2.10 (25)  of the Criminal
				Procedure Law.
(b) Nothing herein
				shall be deemed to abridge the status of a peace officer employed by the
				Department of Correctional Services, and shall not expand or abridge the powers
				of peace officers defined by law, but shall explain when those powers may be
				exercised for purposes of employment with the Department of Correctional
				Services.
(c) Nothing herein shall
				be deemed to abridge or otherwise limit any rights or entitlements provided by
				law or any relevant collective bargaining agreement to which any peace officer
				employed by this agency is otherwise entitled.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 57 - Firearms › Section 57.2 - Definitions

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(a) Department
				means the State of New York Department of Correctional Services.
(b) Firearm means any pistol, revolver,
				sawed-off shotgun, machine gun or other firearm of a size which may be
				concealed upon a person.
(c)
				Personal firearm means any revolver, single-shot or semi-automatic
				pistol.
(d) Employee, for purposes
				of this Part, shall mean a person having peace-officer status who is employed
				by the Department of Correctional Services.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 57 - Firearms › Section 57.3 - Employee duty of notification

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) All
				employees must immediately notify their facility superintendent or director or,
				if they are not employed at a facility, the Deputy Commissioner for Facility
				Operations or his designee, of any and all personal firearms they acquire, own
				or possess. All employees must notify their facility superintendent or director
				or, if they are not employed at a facility, the Deputy Commissioner for
				Facility Operations or his designee, of any firearm they acquire, within 10
				days of acquisition.
(b) Any
				notification under this Part must include the make, model number, calibre,
				serial number, and the name and address of the person from whom the weapon was
				acquired.
(c) Employees must notify
				the appropriate persons identified in subdivision (a) of this section within 10
				days of disposing of any personal firearm, and this notification must include
				the name and address of the person to whom it was sold or otherwise
				disposed.
(d) All notices required
				to be made by employees shall be on forms provided by the New York State
				Police, and the original plus one copy shall be forwarded by the facility
				superintendent or director to the Deputy Commissioner for Facility
				Operations.
(e) The reporting
				requirements of this section shall not be deemed to apply to any firearm which
				is acquired, owned or possessed by an employee under a permit issued pursuant
				to section 400 of the Penal Law.
(f) The only weapons that employees may be
				permitted to privately acquire, own or possess by virtue of their own peace
				officer status are personal firearms as defined in section
				57.2  of this
				Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 57 - Firearms › Section 57.4 - Deputy commissioner for facility operations-duty of notification

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Upon receipt of
				notification forms required by section
				57.3 
				of this Part, the Deputy Commissioner for Facility Operations or his designee
				shall promptly submit the original of the notice containing the information
				required to be provided, pursuant to section
				57.3 
				of this Part, to the superintendent of the Division of State Police. A copy of
				such form shall be placed in the employee's personnel file. Such deputy
				commissioner or his designee shall update and resubmit this list as
				necessary.
(b) The department shall
				promptly submit a list of every firearm possessed by the department as of July
				1, 1980 to the superintendent of the Division of State Police. The manner of
				this list shall be on forms and in a manner provided for by the aforesaid
				superintendent. This list will be updated and resubmitted within 10 days of any
				subsequent acquisition or disposal of any firearms, and shall include the name
				and address of the party from or to whom the firearm was acquired or
				disposed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 57 - Firearms › Section 57.5 - Peace officers' special duties

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(a)
				Peace officers employed by the department shall be deemed to be acting pursuant
				to their special duties for the purposes of section 2.20(9) of the CPL, when in
				the course of their specifically assigned duties as employees of the Department
				of Correctional Services they are acting to maintain the custody, control and
				supervision of an inmate or in apprehending an inmate of the
				department.
(b) Employees having
				peace-officer status shall be provided firearms from the department's arsenals
				when necessary to carry out their special duties as defined in subdivision (a)
				of this section. No employee of the department shall be deemed to be acting
				pursuant to his special duties while in possession of a privately owned or
				possessed firearm, except where such employee is acting to apprehend an inmate
				of whom he has personal knowledge who has escaped or is in the process of
				escaping.
(c) Employees covered by
				this Part are not expected nor required by any rule or regulation of the
				Department of Correctional Services or by any law of the State of New York to
				act as police officer, as defined in the CPL, during their off-duty hours.
				Peace officers employed by this agency, while off duty, shall continue to
				possess the status and powers of peace officers provided by law, subject to the
				provisions of this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 62 - Attendance Rules For Teachers › Section 62.1 - Attendance

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Basic workweek.
				The basic workweek for annual salaried employees of the department, other than
				those employed on a part-time basis only and other than employees excluded from
				the application of overtime compensation under the rules of the Director of the
				Budget adopted pursuant to section 134  of the Civil Service Law, shall be 40
				hours; provided, however, that where a shorter workweek would not interfere
				with the proper performance of government functions an appointing authority may
				establish a basic workweek of not less than 371/2 hours and five days for any
				employees under its appointive jurisdiction as may be designated by it with the
				approval of the Division of the Budget; provided, however, that this section
				shall not be construed to increase the workweek of any employee for whom a
				workweek of less than 40 hours was prescribed by law, rule or administrative
				regulation as of January 2, 1957.
(b) Record of attendance. All employees are
				required to maintain a daily record of absences and time and leave credits
				earned and used in accordance with these rules. A daily record of attendance
				shall be maintained during the period covered by the school calendar and for
				any periods during which an employee may receive compensation which is in
				addition to his regular salary.
(c)
				Overtime. Overtime shall not be earned for time worked in excess of the basic
				workweek during the 10-month period an employee is paid his regular salary. An
				employee who works in his position or in any other position allocated to a
				salary grade in section 130  of the Civil Service Law for the
				two-month period during which his regular salary is not paid shall receive
				additional compensation for such service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION › Chapter II - Employee Rules › Part 62 - Attendance Rules For Teachers › Section 62.2 - Absence with pay

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Saturdays,
				Sundays and holidays.
(1) All Saturdays,
				Sundays and legal holidays shall, so far as practicable, be allowed as days
				off. Employees required to work on any of these days shall not be entitled to
				compensatory time off in lieu thereof.
(2) The days prescribed as holidays by the
				department's annual calendar for the school year shall be observed as
				holidays.