A 3780: Relates to allowing telephone calls prior to an incarcerated individual's transfer except under exceptional circumstances.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3780 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, GIBBS, ANDERSON, COOK, SIMONE, SAYEGH, ALVAREZ, ZACCARO, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, RAGA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to allowing a telephone call prior to an incarcerated individual's transfer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 23 of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The commissioner shall have the power to transfer incarcerated 5 individuals from one correctional facility to another. Whenever the 6 transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility to 7 another shall be ordered by the commissioner, the superintendent of the 8 facility from which the incarcerated individuals are transferred shall 9 take immediate steps to make the transfer. The transfer shall be in 10 accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the department for 11 the safe delivery of such incarcerated individuals to the designated 12 facility. [Within] Immediately prior to the transfer, the department 13 shall electronically notify the incarcerated individual's next of kin or 14 personal representative of the transfer and the incarcerated individual 15 shall be allowed to make at least one personal phone call, free of 16 charge, except under exceptional circumstances when to do so would 17 create an unacceptable risk to the safety and security of incarcerated 18 individuals or staff. When a call is not permitted due to exceptional 19 circumstances, the department shall so indicate in a contemporaneous 20 written document. Additionally, within twenty-four hours of arriving at 21 the facility to which an incarcerated individual is transferred, [he or 22 she] such individual shall be allowed to make at least one personal 23 phone call, except when to do so would create an unacceptable risk to 24 the safety and security of incarcerated individuals or staff. If securi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03032-01-5 
 A. 3780 2 1 ty precautions prevent the incarcerated individual from making such 2 call, a staff member designated by the superintendent of the facility 3 shall make a call to a person of the incarcerated individual's choice 4 unless the incarcerated individual declines to have such a call made. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 6 have become a law.