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S 9475 NY

Relates to race-blind charging guidelines for prosecution agencies

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Mar 16, 2026

Latest action (Apr 20, 2026) REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES

Summary

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.

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1 coauthor / cosponsor

Action history (2)
  1. Mar 16, 2026 REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS · upper
  2. Apr 20, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES · upper

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  • S9475 · HTML
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