S 9475 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to race-blind charging guidelines for prosecution agencies

Summary
Requires the department of criminal justice services to develop, issue, and publish "race-blind charging" guidelines for a process whereby all prosecution agencies that prosecute criminal violations of the law as felonies or misdemeanors, shall implement a process by which an initial review of a case for potential charging is performed based on information, including police reports and criminal histories from the department of justice, from which direct means of identifying the race of the suspect, victim, or witness have been removed.
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Mar 2026
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Introduced Mar 16, 2026 Last action Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
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Mar 16, 2026
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