Relates to the effectiveness of certain county-tribal detention agreements between the Oneida Indian Nation and Oneida county and Madison county

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◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Joseph A. Griffo says this is needed

Although there are 574 federally recognized Indian tribes, there are only approximately 90 detention centers throughout Indian Country. To support public safety in Indian Country, counties throughout the United States contract with Indian nations to house tribal prisoners who are detained or incarcerated through their tribal justice centers. This legislation amends the correction law and the county law to authorize the counties of Madison and Oneida to enter into county-tribal detention agreements with the Oneida Indian Nation to house in their county correctional facilities inmates remanded by the Oneida Indian Nation court and to ratify any such agreements. Key characteristics of the Oneida Indian Nation's criminal justice system that support the enact- ment of particularized legislation approving the county-tribal detention agreements include, among others: (i) the 2013 Agreement between Oneida, the State of New York, Madison county and Oneida county, including state and county recognition of the Oneida police department, (ii) special law enforcement commissions issued by the U.S. Department of Interior to the Oneida Indian Nation police department and the concomitant federal over- sight that accompanies those commissions, (iii) cross-deputization of Oneida Indian Nation police officers by the Madison county sheriff and Oneida county sheriff, (iv) the Oneida Indian Nation court's compliance with the federal Indian Civil Rights Act, and (v) the Oneida Indian Nation police department's accreditation by the Commission on Accredi- tation of Law Enforcement Agencies.

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.