S 1404: Requires grand jury proceedings for police officers or peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of force to be conducted in open, contemporaneous public hearings.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1404 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring grand jury proceedings for police officers or peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of force that led or leads to the death or personal injury of an unarmed civilian to be conducted in open, contemporaneous public hearings; prohibiting indictment of a police or peace officer involved in a shooting or an incident involving exces- sive use of force by way of an indictment by information; and requir- ing a district attorney who declines to pursue an indictment of police or peace officers to provide a report explaining their decision 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 190.55 of the criminal procedure 2 law is amended to read as follows: 3 1. (a) A grand jury may hear and examine evidence concerning the 4 alleged commission of any offense prosecutable in the courts of the 5 county, and concerning any misconduct, nonfeasance or neglect in public 6 office by a public servant, whether criminal or otherwise. 7 (b) Grand jury proceedings for police officers or peace officers 8 involved in a shooting or excessive use of force that led or leads to 9 the death or personal injury of an unarmed civilian shall be conducted 10 in open, contemporaneous public hearings. 11 (c) A district attorney charged with investigating police officers or 12 peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of force that led 13 or leads to the death or personal injury of an unarmed civilian shall 14 not seek indictment of the defendant officers by way of an indictment by 15 information. 16 (d) A district attorney who declines to pursue an indictment of police 17 officers or peace officers involved in a shooting or excessive use of 18 force that led or leads to the death or personal injury of an unarmed EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04237-01-5 
 S. 1404 2 1 civilian shall produce a detailed report that describes how they reached 2 such decision. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.