This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to submit to the Council and post on the ACS website no later than July 15 of each year (with the first report due by July 15, 2016) a report on programs and services available to youth in ACS facilities. The report would include a list of all programs and services provided in each facility, the daily schedule of programs and services in each facility, the average number of hours of services provided per month, the percentage of youth utilizing each program or service in the prior six month period, and the average total expenditure for youth in each facility in the prior fiscal year. This information would be provided for each secure and non-secure detention facility and each non-secure and limited secure placement facility.
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Int. No. 949
By Council Members Cabrera, Cumbo, Eugene, Johnson, Mealy, Mendez, Palma, Richards, Rose, Cohen, Lancman, Grodenchik, Rosenthal and Ulrich
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Administration for Children’s Services to report on programs and services provided to youth in placement and detention facilities
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 9 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add new section 21-909 to read as follows:
§ 21-909 Programs and services in ACS facilities. a. The commissioner shall submit to the council and post to the ACS website by July 15 of each year a report on programs and services provided to youth in ACS facilities, with the first such report to be submitted no later than July 15, 2016. The report shall include information from the first six months of the current calendar year and the second six months of the preceding calendar year. Such report shall include information on (i) all services and programs provided to youth in each such facility during each such six month period, including, but not limited to, education, health services, and recreation; (ii) the daily schedule of services and programs; (iii) the average number of hours provided of such services and programs for each month, disaggregated by type of service or program; (iv) the percentage of youth in each such facility utilizing such services and programs in each month, disaggregated by type of service or program; and (v) average total expenditure for youth residing in each such facility in the prior fiscal year, disaggregated by expenditure category.
b. The information provided pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall be aggregated by the following factors: (i) each secure detention facility; (ii) each non-secure detention facility; (iii) each non-secure placement facility; and (iv) each limited secure placement facility.
§2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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