Amid the ongoing debate over whether to rollback aspects of 2019 reforms to the state’s cash bail laws, officials from Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration shared data on Monday showing there’s been little difference in the number of people rearrested pretrial from before the changes were passed to a couple of years after implementation.
But Republican lawmakers in both the state Senate and Assembly are dubious about the data’s accuracy.
Officials from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) highlighted the findings during a marathon multi-hour hour joint state Senate and Assembly oversight hearing to analyze data collected on the impact of the 2019 criminal justice reforms by DCJS and the state Office of Court Administration (OCA). State lawmakers also heard testimony from officials with the OCA and with New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.