Relates to race-blind charging guidelines for prosecution agencies

Latest action Apr 20, 2026

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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Where it stands

Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A10072, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the Executive Law.

Committee

Governmental Operations · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Investigations And Government Operations · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

The purpose of this bill is to develop, issue, and publish race-blind charging guidelines for a process whereby all prosecution agencies shall implement a process by which an initial review of a case for potential charging is performed on information from which means of identifying the race of the suspect, victim, or witness have been removed or redacted.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

Vote: Committee vote · Investigations And Government Operations
Senate Investigations And Government OperationsApr 21, 2026Result: passed
(5) (2) (0) (0)

Cosponsors

Micah Lasher and Toby Ann Stavisky

Democratic2

See the full list on nysenate.gov

The sponsor's argument

Why Jamaal Bailey says this is needed

To add fairness and remove bias from criminal charging.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Apr 20, 2026
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES
NY Senate
Mar 16, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
NY Senate
Jan 30, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
NY Assembly

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