The New York City Council - File #: Int 1090-2018

• File #: Int 1090-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Requiring the department of correction to report on the sexual abuse of visitors.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• File created: 8/29/2018
• In control: Committee on Criminal Justice
• On agenda: 8/29/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to report on the sexual abuse of visitors
• Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Carlina Rivera , Brad S. Lander
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/6/2018	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Hearing Held by Committee
9/6/2018	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Laid Over by Committee
8/29/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
8/29/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1090

By Council Members Dromm, Rivera and Lander

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to report on the sexual abuse of visitors
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 9-140 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 85 for the year 2015, is amended to read as follows:
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Borough jail facility. The term "borough jail facility" means any department facility in which inmates are housed by the department and that is located outside Rikers Island.
City Jail. The term "city jail" means any department facility in which inmates are housed by the department.
Professional. The term "professional" means a person who is properly identified as providing services or assistance to inmates, including lawyers, doctors, religious advisors, public officials, therapists, counselors, and media representatives.
Sexual Abuse. The term "sexual abuse" has the same meaning set forth in section 115.6 of title 38 of the code of federal regulations, or any successor regulation.
Staff. The term "staff" means anyone, other than an inmate, working at a facility operated by the department.
Visitor. The term "visitor" means any person who enters a city jail with the stated intention of visiting an inmate at any city jail, or any person who is screened by the department for visitation purposes, including but not limited to professionals and any person who registers to visit an inmate in the department's visitor tracking system.
? 2. Subdivision b of section 9-140 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraph 7 and 8 to read as follows:
7. The total number of complaints made to the department regarding sexual abus...