a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Domestic violence. The term "domestic violence" means acts or threats of violence, not including acts of self-defense, committed by a family or household member against another family or household member.
Family offense. The term "family offense" shall mean an act or threat of an act as defined in section 530.11 of the criminal procedure law.
Human trafficking. The term "human trafficking" shall mean an act or threat of an act that may constitute sex trafficking, as defined in section 230.34 of the penal law, or labor trafficking, as defined in section 135.35 and 135.36 of the penal law.
Sexual crimes. The term "sexual crimes" means any offense in article 130 of the penal law.
b. Training requirement.
1. The department shall develop, and implement by September 30, 2022, a victim-centered, trauma-informed questioning training program designed to develop skills for the response to and investigation of incidents involving domestic violence, sexual crimes, or human trafficking. The training program shall include but not be limited to the following components: the dynamics of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, including abuser tactics of power and control; danger and lethality factors in domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking cases; the criminal law provisions of the Family Protection Domestic Violence Intervention Act of 1994, codified in chapter 222 of the laws of 1994; how to determine the primary aggressor in a domestic violence incident; the family offenses; the offense of endangering the welfare of a child; the offenses of assault in the first degree, manslaughter in the first and second degrees, criminally negligent homicide, and murder in the second degree, together with the defense of justification and the role of trauma in victims' acts of self-defense; the importance of avoiding expressions of skepticism, victim-blaming, and minimizing of the offense in early communications with victims; how to recognize signs of drug-facilitated sexual assault and preserve crucial evidence thereof; the overlap among domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking; victim-centered, trauma-informed questioning in domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and related cases; the effects of trauma on victims; techniques of trauma-informed policing; the resources available to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, including shelter and nonresidential services, locating hospital-based sexual assault forensic exams, and domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking emergency resources; and any other training deemed relevant by the commissioner, except that the commissioner may eliminate a training component or replace a training component with an alternative component in order to provide a comprehensive victim-centered, trauma-informed questioning training program.
2. There shall be an interdisciplinary and interagency committee that shall meet no later than May 1, 2022, and twice a year thereafter. The committee shall make recommendations to the department with respect to the training program required by this subdivision. Each member of the committee will use their insights from interactions with programs and survivors of domestic violence, sexual crimes, and human trafficking to help evaluate whether previous trainings accomplished the goals of the trainings. Such committee shall consist of:
(i) the director of the mayor's office to end domestic and gender-based violence or the director's designee;
(ii) the director of the mayor's office of criminal justice or the director's designee;
(iii) officers or employees of the department, designated by the commissioner, with relevant experience or expertise, including officers or employees with expertise in domestic violence, sexual crimes, and human trafficking;
(iv) two representatives of two domestic violence service providers, including at least one provider that serves immigrant communities, as appointed by the mayor;
(v) two representatives of two sexual assault service providers, as appointed by the mayor; and
(vi) two representatives of two human trafficking service providers, as appointed by the mayor;
(vii) two survivors of gender-based violence, as appointed by the mayor; and
(viii) one or more representatives from the offices of the city's district attorneys invited by the department.
3. New recruits. All new department recruits shall receive at least three hours of training related to domestic violence, sexual crimes, and human trafficking.
4. Ongoing training. All uniformed members of the department whose responsibilities include routinely interacting with victims of crime, shall receive training on incidents involving domestic violence, sexual crimes, or human trafficking, on a biennial basis.
c. Reporting. Beginning February 1, 2023, and no later than each February 1 thereafter, the department shall report the following information concerning domestic violence, sexual crimes, or human trafficking training for the previous calendar year: the number of police officers trained and the curriculum used for each training session. The report shall be disaggregated by the number of officers who received recruit training and the number of officers that received ongoing training in the prior calendar year. Such report shall be posted on the department's website and submitted to the mayor, the speaker of the council, and the members of the committee formed pursuant to subdivision b of this section.
(L.L. 2022/049, 1/15/2022, eff. 4/15/2022)