0:00 → 2:18(2m 18s)
Committee opened, witnesses from Department of Probation were sworn in; Chair asked committee staff to go over procedural items and confirmed witness list including Commissioner Chiron Goodwin and senior staff (first formal appearances/witness oath).
Budget hearing of the New York City Council Committee on Criminal Justice (Finance/Criminal Justice) covering the Department of Probation and Department of Correction fiscal 2027 preliminary budgets, testimony from Commissioners Chiron Goodwin (Probation) and Stanley Richards (Correction), discussion of staffing, electronic monitoring, juvenile rearrest concerns, infrastructure and the burrow-based jail transition, the federal remediation manager, and board of correction oversight and public testimony calling for investments in alternatives to incarceration and mental-health supports.
