Chi A. Ossé

This bill would require the Office of Technology and Innovation’s Cyber Command, along with New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM), to develop or update an emergency response plan concerning artificial intelligence model-related threats to New York City’s infrastructure, operations, and public health and welfare. This plan would have to be submitted to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council. Cyber Command and NYCEM would have to review, and update as appropriate, the plan on an annual basis. Additionally, they would have to submit annual progress reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on artificial intelligence emergencies in the prior 12 months and on implementation of the plan.

This bill would require the Department of Social Services (DSS) to create one shelter in each borough for LGBTQ single adults. The bill would also require that DSS report the total cost of each shelter, the number of individuals served at each shelter, and the impact and effectiveness of the shelters.

This bill would require the Department of Homeless Services to submit quarterly reports on shelter facilities that exclusively serve LGBTQ single adults, including information regarding how many people enter each shelter, how many people exit each shelter and enter permanent housing, and what services are provided.

This bill would require the establishment of a fund that would advance payments to freelance workers. The fund would provide payments to a freelance worker if both the freelance worker and the hiring party agree in writing that the freelance worker has completed all required services and that the hiring party will pay to the payment fund the full amount that would be due to the freelance worker. The amount that the payment fund pays to the freelance worker would be reduced by a fee established by the fund. This would allow a freelance worker to receive payment earlier than the date payment would be due under the contract with the hiring party. The fund would not be required to make payments if either the freelance worker or the hiring party has previously engaged in fraudulent behavior related to the fund or failed to make required payments to the fund.

This bill would permit the Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to, in the case of snowfall, employ and hire temporarily as many minors 16 or 17 years of age to be deployed as Emergency Snow Shovelers, as needed.

This bill would regulate the Police Department’s response to public gathering at which individuals are expressing rights protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 8 of the New York State Constitution. Specifically, the bill would prohibit the deployment the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group to such events, and generally prohibit the Strategic Response Group from being used for crowd control purposes. Additionally, the bill would prohibited the Police Department from using certain police tactics when responding to first amendment events, or for the purpose of conducting crowd control. Finally, the bill would require the Police Department to publish a quarterly report on officer deployment in response to first amendment events.