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Dramatic increase in summons issuance and its impact on New Yorkers
2:03:43
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Council Member Restler expresses concern about the significant increase in summons issuance and its impact on New Yorkers. He questions the effectiveness of this approach in addressing city conditions.
- Summons are up 35% in FY '25 and on track to exceed 1 million for the year
- This is more than double the number of summons issued when Mayor Adams took office in FY '22
- Restler questions the impact of increased summons on improving city conditions
- Examples of increased summons include doubled rodent summons by the Department of Health and the NYPD's new quality of life unit
Lincoln Restler
2:03:43
Okay.
2:03:46
I'd like to shift to summons.
2:03:48
The PMMR showed that summons were up another 35% in FY '25 and on track to exceed 1,000,000 summons issued for the year.
2:04:00
This is more than double the number of summons issued when Mayor Adams took office in FY twenty two.
2:04:05
As I mentioned in my opening, I am deeply concerned about the impact these summons are having on New Yorkers and the lack of impact they're having to actually address and improve city conditions.
2:04:15
Recent reporting showed that the Department of Health doubled the number of rodent summons, but three zero one activity by rat complaints continues to increase.
2:04:22
NYPD has just announced a new quality of life unit that will inevitably drive summons up even further.
2:04:28
And my understanding is the NYPD is throwing the progress of the CJRA from the Marc Vivarito de Blasio era out the window.
2:04:35
I understand that Oath is not responsible for issuing these summons, just adjudicating.
2:04:40
But you work the clearinghouse and the only agency that has insight into cumulative impact that these million summons in FY twenty five have on New Yorkers.
2:04:49
Have you done an analysis of the dramatic increase of the summons issued by the Adams administration and spoken to City Hall about it?
Asim Rahman
2:04:57
Yep.
2:04:58
I'm not sure I would characterize Oath as the place that would have insight into the impact of those increases.
2:05:04
We do see the increases.
2:05:05
Increases.
2:05:06
And again, our job is to adjudicate the cases.
2:05:08
So we are in a position to provide whoever wants to conduct that data analysis, be it city council, be it city hall, individuals who want to look at data to see what increases have gone up and what does that data tell us.
2:05:24
We can provide that data.
2:05:26
OAT sits on a tremendous amount of information regarding our summonses.
2:05:29
And we issue many reports including regular reports to counsel
Katrina Porter
2:05:33
Have you flagged
Lincoln Restler
2:05:33
for your counterparts at City Hall the tremendous increase, doubling since the time the mayor took office so that they're thinking about the impacts of such a phenomenal increase in summons during this relatively short period?