A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of information technology and telecommunications to create and maintain an interactive website detailing traffic crash data.

Int. No. 153

By Council Members Lander, Chin, Gentile, Koo, Levine, Reynoso, Rose, Torres, Rosenthal, Levin, Van Bramer and Kallos

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of information technology and telecommunications to create and maintain an interactive website detailing traffic crash data.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision r of section 1072 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows:

r. to provide to the public, at no charge on the city’s website, an interactive crime and traffic crash map that, for each segment of a street bounded by one or more intersections and/or a terminus, shall visually display the aggregate monthly, yearly and year-to-date totals for the current and the most recent prior calendar years for each class of crime that is reported to the New York city police department, or for which an arrest was made, including crimes that occurred in parks and subway stations, and for each such segment of a street, the aggregate monthly, yearly and year-to-date totals of traffic crashes and the number of fatalities that resulted from all such traffic crashes. Such map shall be searchable by address, zip code, and patrol precinct. All information required by this subdivision shall be available on the city’s website as soon as practicable but in no case more than one month after a crime complaint has been filed or a traffic crash has occurred.  The mayor shall ensure that all agencies provide the department with such assistance and information as the department requires to compile and update the interactive crime and traffic crash map.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect one hundred eighty days after its enactment into law.

Int. No. 1163-2013

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