Criminal Justice

in committee · New York · Senate Jan 13, 2026

S 8895: Establishes a new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant

Establishes a new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeCreates new felony assault charge for targeting retired officers with retribution intent, expanding criminalization of specific offenses.90% confidence

Sub-Topics Policing Violent Crime

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in committee · New York · Senate Feb 27, 2026

S 8594: Enacts the securing customer assets against malfeasance act or the S.C.A.M. act

Enacts the "securing customer assets against malfeasance" or "S.C.A.M." act; increases penalties for a scheme to defraud; broadens the definitions of commercial bribery and bribing a public servant; creates the crime of structuring; expands jurisdiction for tax revenue deprivation; increases penalties for defrauding the government and certain persons over the age of sixty-five.

Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill targets tax fraud to protect government revenue, expanding jurisdiction for tax revenue deprivation and increasing penalties for defrauding the government.90% confidence ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeIncreases penalties and expands criminalization for financial fraud, aligning with 'oppose' indicators of expanded criminalization.85% confidence

Sub-Topics Revenue

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in committee · New York · Assembly Jan 7, 2026

A 9416: Increases the offense classification for certain assault offenses regarding police officers and peace officers

This bill raises penalties for assaulting certain public safety personnel in New York. It specifically increases second-degree assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters, EMTs, sanitation workers, and other essential service workers from a class D felony to a class C felony (up to 15 years in prison). The law expands protections to include these workers when they're performing official duties, such as a sanitation worker enforcing regulations or a firefighter providing medical aid. It also upgrades aggravated assault on officers to a class A felony (up to 25 years). The bill applies directly to individuals who cause physical injury to these protected personnel while they're carrying out their jobs.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeBill increases penalties for assaulting officers (class D to C felony), expanding criminalization and harsher sentences for violence against public safety workers.95% confidence

Sub-Topics Corrections Policing Violent Crime

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in committee · New York · Assembly Jan 15, 2026

A 9316: Relates to the removal of adolescent offenders to family court; and relates to jurisdiction of family court

Limits the circumstances under which the case of an adolescent offender may be removed to family court; limits the jurisdiction of family court with respect to certain repeat adolescent offenders.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeLimits family court jurisdiction for repeat adolescent offenders, restricting rehabilitative pathways and shifting toward punitive handling rather than reform-focused approaches.85% confidence

Sub-Topics Courts Juvenile Justice

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in committee · New York · Senate Jan 7, 2026

S 908: Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole from being eligible for commutation of sentence

Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such defendant, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter; emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeProhibits commutation for violent offenders (murder, robbery, etc.), restricting sentence flexibility and opposing reform efforts by hardening sentencing95% confidence

Sub-Topics Policing Probation & Parole Violent Crime

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in committee · New York · Senate Jan 7, 2026

S 3112: Makes the failure of a sex offender to register or verify pursuant to sex offender registration act, or working on an ice cream truck or other mobile food establishment a class D felony

Makes the failure of a sex offender to register or verify pursuant to the provisions of the sex offender registration act or violation of the prohibition on sex offenders being employed on a motor vehicle engaged in the retail sale of frozen desserts or another type of mobile food establishment or pushcart a class D felony.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeBill increases penalties for sex offender registration failures and employment restrictions, expanding criminalization through felony classification.95% confidence

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in committee · New York · Senate Jan 7, 2026

S 7251: Makes public lewdness in the first degree a class E felony

This bill upgrades the penalty for public lewdness in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony under New York's penal law. It directly affects individuals convicted of this specific offense, now facing felony-level penalties instead of misdemeanor charges. The bill amends section 245.03 of the penal law to change the offense classification, as specified in the bill text. The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeUpgrades penalty from misdemeanor to felony, increasing severity and expanding criminalization per bill text.95% confidence

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in committee · New York · Assembly Jan 7, 2026

A 5802: Relates to warning labels on cannabis and criminalizes certain violations of restrictions on the sale of adult use cannabis

Relates to warning labels on cannabis products; includes advertising, deceptively advertising, branding, marketing, packaging, displaying, labelling, offering for ingestion outside of packaging, or administering cannabis products in contravention of a certain section of the cannabis law or rules and regulations in the criminal sale of cannabis in the first degree.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeCriminalizes cannabis sale violations, expanding criminalization under cannabis law without reform indicators.90% confidence

Sub-Topics Drug Policy

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in committee · New York · Senate Jan 7, 2026

S 259: Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp

Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation, to promulgate rules and regulations for certain signage on school buses; relates to professional development school bus driver safety training seminars statewide.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeBill creates new criminal offenses for trespass on school grounds, expanding criminalization, which aligns with 'oppose' indicators.90% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationBill establishes safety protections for school property and buses, enhancing student safety on school grounds per its criminal trespass provisions.90% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentMandates school bus driver safety training, directly improving workplace safety for this worker group.95% confidence ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationMandates school bus safety rules and signage via transportation commissioner, enhancing transportation safety standards85% confidence

Sub-Topics School Transportation Public Transit

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in committee · New York · Assembly Jan 7, 2026

A 5186: Relates to the unlawful wearing of body armor

Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest; provides that a person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when such person commits a certain misdemeanor or felony and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime such person wears a body vest.

Topics ✗ Criminal JusticeOpposes Criminal JusticeBill expands criminalization by making unlawful body armor use during crimes a separate offense, increasing penalties without reform indicators.90% confidence

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