§ 29 — Department statistics

§ 29. Department statistics. 1. The department shall continue to\ncollect, maintain, and analyze statistical and other information and\ndata with respect to persons subject to the jurisdiction of the\ndepartment, including but not limited to: (a) the number of such\npersons: placed in the custody of the department, assigned to a specific\ndepartment program, accorded community supervision and declared\ndelinquent, recommitted to a state correctional institution upon\nrevocation of community supervision, or discharged upon maximum\nexpiration of sentence; (b) the criminal history of such persons; (c)\nthe social, educational, and vocational circumstances of any such\npersons; (d) the institutional and community supervision programs and\nthe behavior of such persons; and, (e) the military background and\ncircumstances, if such person served in the United States armed forces.\nProvided, however, in the event any statistical information on the\nethnic background of the incarcerated individual population of a\ncorrectional facility or facilities is collected by the department, such\nstatistical information shall contain, but not be limited to, the\nfollowing ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian; (iii) American\nIndian; (iv) Afro-American/Black; and (v) Spanish speaking/Hispanic\nwhich category shall include, but not be limited to, the following\nsubcategories consisting of: (1) Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3)\nDominicans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.\n 2. The commissioner shall make rules as to the privacy of records,\nstatistics and other information collected, obtained and maintained by\nthe department, its institutions or the board of parole and information\nobtained in an official capacity by officers, employees or members\nthereof.\n 3. The commissioner shall have access to records and criminal\nstatistics collected by the division of criminal justice services and\nthe commissioner of criminal justice services shall have access to\nrecords and criminal statistics collected by the department of\ncorrections and community supervision, as the commissioner of\ncorrections and community supervision and the commissioner of criminal\njustice services shall mutually determine.\n 4. (a) The commissioner shall provide an annual report to the\nlegislature on the staffing of correction officers and correction\nsergeants in state correctional facilities. Such report shall include,\nbut not be limited to the following factors: the number of security\nposts on the current plot plan for each facility that have been closed\non a daily basis, by correctional facility security classification\n(minimum, medium and maximum); the number of security positions\neliminated by correctional facility since two thousand compared to the\nnumber of incarcerated individuals incarcerated in each such facility; a\nbreakdown by correctional facility security classification (minimum,\nmedium, and maximum) of the staff hours of overtime worked, by year\nsince two thousand and the annual aggregate costs related to this\novertime. In addition, such report shall be delineated by correctional\nfacility security classification, the annual number of security\npositions eliminated, the number of closed posts and amount of staff\nhours of overtime accrued as well as the overall overtime expenditures\nthat resulted. Such report shall be provided to the chairs of the senate\nfinance, assembly ways and means, senate crime and corrections and\nassembly correction committees, and posted on the department's website,\nannually by February first.\n (b) Such report shall also include but not be limited to: the total\nnumber of correctional facilities in operation which are maintained by\nthe department, the security level of each facility, the number of beds\nat each facility as of December thirty-first of the prior year, as\nclassified by the department, and the number of empty beds, if any, by\nsuch classification as of such date.\n