QUESTION
Why hasn't the New York City Board of Correction updated its sexual abuse and harassment reporting?
4:40:04
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The New York City Board of Correction's delay in reporting sexual abuse and harassment is attributed to insufficient staffing.
- The Board plans to restructure by moving the reporting under its violence prevention team.
- There's an intention to return to robust and timely reporting.
- Additional staff is required to achieve the desired level of reporting.
Sandy Nurse
4:40:04
The board's compliance dashboard of DOCs and correctional health services sexual abuse and harassment minimum standards related reporting haven't been updated since mid 2022.
4:40:18
And department has not produced a semiannual report evaluating sexual abuse and sexual harassment allegations, which is required by those standards since August 2020.
4:40:30
Is the board's delay in reporting this information related to insufficient staffing?
Jasmine Georges-Yilla
4:40:36
Yes.
4:40:36
It is.
4:40:37
And a part of our restructuring structuring to accommodate that is that we've moved that reporting under our violence prevention team, and we hope to get back up to robust and timely reporting in that area.
4:40:51
But we do require additional staff.