N.Y. Correction Law § 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.