Chair Farías probes gaps when custody transfers between agencies
Farías says she wants to understand whether DOC logs restraints when another agency takes custody during court or medical transport. Chard says each agency follows its own policies and reports, and Farías asks to discuss the specific case offline.
I guess what I'm also trying to ask is, and...
That makes sense.
I'd love to talk offline about this specific case so I can understand the points of whether it's someone that was transferred, someone that's pre-detained, all these different points to get a better idea on the case itself.
What I'm trying to...
Acknowledge or infer or figure out with you folks is if and when someone
is still under DOC's custody and another agency, whether that's EMS or NYPD or someone else might be taking, you know,
involved in an incident with them, whether it's in a courtroom or going to a medical facility, does that data set still end up on your side or is it expected that it would go to the other agency?
I say this, I'm only asking because there's times where we use these very specific moments as city government to kind of remove ourselves from accountability of that data point.
And so that's what I'm trying to get to.
Right.
I think it's point of clarity.
Pre-arrangement, someone is in NYPD custody.
So any...
Yes, that I know.
I'm just wondering, like, so...
So what I will say is there's state policies, state laws that govern restraints on pregnant and postpartum individuals.
They're overarching, but some of them are specific for certain agencies.
So I think to the extent that someone is transferred into another agency's custody, they would be following their own policies in compliance with whatever laws and oversight is governing them.
Our specific policies are guided by state law and our state oversight bodies.
And that's why we have those policies in place.
That's where the reports are getting generated from in all those timelines.