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 does not have any established procedure in this area even though the City Charter requires it. We are 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 draft procedures. A public hearing on these draft procedures will be held on June 18 at 10am. The hearing will be held in the Board of Correction's Conference Room at 49 Chambers Street, 9th Floor / Room 929B, by City Hall Park. Click here for a map of the hearing location.
If you would like to testify at the public hearing, you are asked to notify Richard T. Wolf, Executive Director of the New York City Board of Correction at 51 Chambers Street, Room 923, New York, NY 10007 or rtwolf@boc.nyc.gov. You may also send written comments to Mr. Wolf at the same address. For more information, click here to read the official notice of the hearing and draft procedures.