N.Y. Executive Law § 837-u: The division of criminal justice services, in conjunction with the chief administrator of the courts, shall collect data and report annua...

§ 837-u. The division of criminal justice services, in conjunction

with the chief administrator of the courts, shall collect data and

report annually regarding pretrial release and detention. Such data and

report shall contain information categorized by age, gender, racial and

ethnic background; regarding the nature of the criminal offenses,

including the top charge of each case; the number and type of charges in

each defendant's criminal record; whether the prosecutor requested that

the court fix bail, the amounts and forms of bail requested by the

prosecutor, and the amounts and forms of bail set by the court; the

number of individuals released on recognizance; the number of

individuals released on non-monetary conditions, including the

conditions imposed; the number of individuals committed to the custody

of a sheriff prior to trial; the rates of failure to appear and

rearrest; the outcome of such cases or dispositions; whether the

defendant was represented by counsel at every court appearance regarding

the defendant's securing order; the length of the pretrial detention

stay and any other such information as the chief administrator and the

division of criminal justice services may find necessary and

appropriate. Such annual report shall aggregate the data collected by

county; court, including city, town and village courts; and judge. The

data shall be aggregated in order to protect the identity of individual

defendants. The report shall be released publicly and published on the

websites of the office of court administration and the division of

criminal justice services. The first report shall be published eighteen

months after this section shall have become a law, and shall include

data from the first twelve months following the enactment of this

section. Reports for subsequent years shall be published annually on or

before that date thereafter.