S 1849: Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1849 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAYER, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judici- ary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring data report- ing by the chief administrator to delineate specific information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judi- 2 ciary law, as amended by chapter 323 of the laws of 1987, the closing 3 paragraph as amended by chapter 349 of the laws of 1995, is amended to 4 read as follows: 5 (e) Prepare forms and compile and publish data on family offenses as 6 defined in subdivision one of section eight hundred twelve of the family 7 court act or subdivision one of section 530.11 of the criminal procedure 8 law, and proceedings or actions involving family offenses in all 9 courts[,] in the unified court system, and require reporting of such 10 data by all courts, including town and village courts, including but not 11 limited to the following information: 12 (i) the offense alleged; 13 (ii) the relationship of the alleged offender to the petitioner or 14 complainant; 15 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted; 16 (iv) the disposition; and 17 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor. 18 In executing this requirement, the chief administrator may adopt rules 19 requiring appropriate law enforcement or criminal justice agencies to 20 identify actions and proceedings involving family offenses and, with 21 respect to such actions and proceedings, to report, in such form and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01331-02-5 
 S. 1849 2 1 manner as the chief administrator shall prescribe, the information spec- 2 ified herein. 3 The chief administrator of the courts shall adopt rules to facilitate 4 record sharing and other communication among [the supreme, criminal and 5 family] all courts in the unified court system, including town and 6 village courts, subject to applicable provisions of the domestic 7 relations law, criminal procedure law and the family court act pertain- 8 ing to the confidentiality, expungement and sealing of records, where 9 such courts exercise concurrent jurisdiction over family offense 10 proceedings or proceedings involving orders of protection. 11 § 2. The opening paragraphs of paragraphs (u-1) and (v-1) of subdivi- 12 sion 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 102 of 13 the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows: 14 Compile and publish data on misdemeanor offenses in all courts in the 15 unified court system, and require reporting of such data by all courts, 16 including town and village courts, disaggregated by county, and by indi- 17 vidual court, including the following information: 18 Compile and publish data on violations, to the greatest extent practi- 19 cable, in all courts in the unified court system, and require reporting 20 of such data by all courts, including town and village courts, disaggre- 21 gated by county, and by individual court, including the following infor- 22 mation: 23 § 3. Paragraph (w-1) of subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary 24 law, as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as 25 follows: 26 (w-1) The chief administrator shall include the information required 27 by paragraphs (u-1) [and], (v-1), and (ff) of this subdivision in the 28 annual report submitted to the legislature and the governor pursuant to 29 paragraph (j) of subdivision one of this section. The chief administra- 30 tor shall also make the information required by paragraphs (u-1) [and], 31 (v-1), and (ff) of this subdivision available to the public by posting 32 it on the website of the office of court administration and shall update 33 such information on a monthly basis. The information shall be posted in 34 alphanumeric form that can be digitally transmitted or processed and not 35 in portable document format or scanned copies of original documents. 36 § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law is amended by 37 adding two new paragraphs (ff) and (gg) to read as follows: 38 (ff) Prepare forms and compile and publish data on landlord-initiated 39 eviction filings, proceedings or actions and on tenant-initiated 40 filings, proceedings, or actions in all courts in the unified court 41 system, and require reporting of such data by all courts, including town 42 and village courts, disaggregated by county, and by individual court, 43 including but not limited to the following information: 44 (i) in the case of landlord-initiated eviction filings, proceedings, 45 or actions, the total number in each court by month, categorized by 46 whether nonpayment or holdover, the amount of the money judgment 47 entered, if any, and whether the landlord or tenant was represented by 48 an attorney; 49 (ii) in the case of tenant-initiated filings, proceedings, or actions, 50 the total number in each court by month categorized by whether seeking 51 judgment directing repairs, restoration to occupancy after an unlawful 52 eviction, or other relief, and whether the landlord or tenant was 53 represented by an attorney; 54 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted; 55 (iv) the disposition of the proceeding, including whether a judgment 56 and warrant of eviction was issued, repairs, restoration to occupancy, 
 S. 1849 3 1 or other relief ordered, and the amount of the money judgment entered, 2 if any; and 3 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor. 4 (gg) In addition to the data reporting required under paragraphs (e), 5 (u-1), (v-1), (w-1), and (ff) of this subdivision, wherever the chief 6 administrator is required to compile, report, and make other court data 7 publicly available, or wherever the chief administrator opts to require 8 such collection, reporting, and public availability of data, this shall 9 include data from all courts in the unified court system, including town 10 and village courts to the extent practicable, disaggregated by county 11 and by individual court. 12 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law; provided, however, sections one and two of 14 this act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law; 15 and provided, further, the amendments to the opening paragraph of para- 16 graph (v-1) of subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law made by 17 section two of this act shall take effect two years after it shall have 18 become a law.