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NY A06640
Bill
Status
3/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Stefani Zinerman
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AI Summary
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Requires immediate reassignment of correctional officers involved in serious injury, harm, or maltreatment of incarcerated individuals to positions with no direct inmate contact
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Mandates that officers charged with involvement in an incarcerated individual's homicide be placed on leave during the department's investigation
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Requires immediate termination of employment if an officer is found to have been involved in a homicide
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Preserves the right to pursue civil or criminal action against officers regardless of whether department investigations are completed
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Designated as the "Correctional Abuse Accountability Act"
Legislative Description
Enacts the "correctional abuse accountability act"; requires actions by the department if a correctional officer seriously harms or is responsible for the death of an incarcerated individual.
Last Action
referred to correction
1/7/2026