S9475 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- Relates to race-blind charging guidelines for prosecution agencies
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-04-20
- In committee
- Codes
- Introduced
- 2026-03-16
- Same as
- A10072
- Law section
- Executive Law
Sponsors
- Jamaal T. Bailey State Senator, District 36
Co-sponsors
- Toby Ann Stavisky State Senator, District 11
Heard in committee
- Codes NY State Senate committee
- Investigations And Government Operations NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A10072 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Investigations And Government Operations, 2026-04-21 Referred to committee; referred to Codes