The New York City Council - File #: Int 0016-2018

• File #: Int 0016-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Requiring the depts of correction and health and mental hygiene to report on cases of injuries to inmates and staff in city jails, and to refer such cases to investigative agencies.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on Criminal Justice
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the departments of correction and health and mental hygiene to report on cases of injuries to inmates and staff in city jails, and to refer such cases to investigative agencies
• Sponsors: Fernando Cabrera , Justin L. Brannan, Robert F. Holden, Diana Ayala

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 16

By Council Members Cabrera, Brannan, Holden and Ayala

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the departments of correction and health and mental hygiene to report on cases of injuries to inmates and staff in city jails, and to refer such cases to investigative agencies
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 17-199.8 to read as follows:
? 17-199.8 Inmate injury reporting.
a. Definitions. When used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Investigation division" means any division of the department of correction responsible for investigating allegations of the excessive use of force by staff against inmates or for investigating allegations of violence by inmates against staff, including but not limited to the investigation division and intelligence division.
2. "Physical injury" means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. It shall not constitute a superficial bruise, scrape, scratch, or minor swelling.
3. "Serious physical injury" means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily organ.
b. Inmate injury inter-agency reporting. The department must review every incident in which an inmate in the custody of the department of correction received medical treatment for a physical injury to the head or any serious physical injury within 12 hours of the treatment. If an inmate suffered any physical injury to the head or any serious physical injury, the department must report to the investigation division, the department of investigation, and the board of correction a detailed description of the injury, the name of the inmate,...