Q&A
Notification process for individuals whose calls were unlawfully recorded
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Council Member Sandy Nurse inquires about the notification process for individuals whose privileged communications were unlawfully recorded and retained. James Conroy from the Department of Correction provides information on the notification process.
- Confirmation that all affected individuals were notified
- Explanation of how the issue came to light through a discovery production to a defense attorney
- Clarification that all defender agencies were notified, not just those initially involved
- Assurance that the issue was due to human error and has since been rectified
Sandy Nurse
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Okay.
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And in an instance where, people whose conversations were unlawfully recorded and retained, were any of these people notified?
James Conroy
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Everyone was notified, I think.
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So it came as you're aware, it came to us through a what what ultimately was a discovery production to a defender's, defense attorney.
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In in response to that and through the auditing process that we did in conjunction with Securus, all of the defender agencies were notified.
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Not not only Bronx and Brooklyn defenders, which were involved initially, but all of the other defenders.
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It was a limited universe, and it was just, you know, essentially human error that caused that that has since been rectified.
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And we've, again, not seen it since, and it's not been brought to our attention that any of these types of phone calls have been part of criminal discovery or otherwise, recorded when they were privileged.