Establishes a criminal justice infrastructure investment grant program to provide software and hardware for discovery, speedy trials, and bail.
The bill creates a criminal justice infrastructure investment grant program within the executive law. It authorizes the commissioner to award grants to municipalities, courts, sheriffs' offices, and district attorneys' offices for hardware and software to assist with discovery, speedy trials, and bail processes. Eligible items include computers, laptops, printers, scanners, modems, routers, fiber optics, cloud storage, and electronic monitors. The commissioner sets application guidelines, and the division posts approved grants on its website. The bill appropriates $500 million for the program.
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