Petition for Rulemaking
The Legal Aid Society submitted a rulemaking petition to the Board of Correction on February 29, 2008, requesting that the Board adopt procedures for handling the submission, consideration, and disposition of rulemaking petitions.
If that sounds a bit circular, it's because it is. The Board did not have any established procedure in this area even though the City Charter requires it. We were trying to fill the void and, as we say in the petition, to "bring much needed clarity, transparency, and efficiency to the rulemaking process." The need for such procedures was brought home during the Board's lengthy, but mostly closed, process of considering proposed revisions to the Board's Minimum Standards and by the absence of any response by the Board to proposals by the Coalition, by Legal Aid and by others for a variety of revisions to the Standards.
The Board granted the petition and has issued new rules for rulemaking.
Click here to read Legal Aid's petition.
Click here to read the Board's proposed procedures.
Click here to read Legal Aid's comments on the proposed procedures.