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    Local Law 85 – Visitation Quarterly

    Metadata Updated: September 2, 2023

    Quarterly report on DOC visitation metrics.

    New York City Local Law 85 of 2015 requires the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) to publicly report Jail Visitation Statistics within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter for the preceding quarter. Specifically, the DOC is required to report the following metrics on a quarterly basis:

    (1)The total number of visitors to city jails, the total number of visitors to borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors to city jails on Rikers Island,

    (2) The total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails, the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at borough jail facilities, and the total number of visitors that visited a person in custody at city jails on Rikers Island,

    (3) The number of visitors unable to visit a person in custody at any city jail, in total and disaggregated by the reason such visit was not completed,

    (4) The person in custody visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails during the reporting period,

    (5) The borough jail facility visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at borough jail facilities during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of borough jail facilities during the reporting period, and

    (6) The Rikers Island visitation rate, which shall be calculated by dividing the average daily number of visitors who visited persons in custody at city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period by the average daily person in custody population of city jails on Rikers Island during the reporting period. The data within this report represents information that was available to the Department at the time of report production is subject to change based on updated information subsequently reported by staff members to the Department.

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    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2023

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    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2023
    Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/b3eu-nmy6
    Data First Published 2021-12-09
    Data Last Modified 2022-01-07
    Category Public Safety
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
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    Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/b3eu-nmy6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4e64ce435a8e64f7abd7276f7d101c822f156b93114af437540c0893589b7595
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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