Section 29. Department statistics

1.  The  department shall continue to
  collect, maintain, and analyze statistical  and  other  information  and
  data  with  respect  to  persons  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of the
  department, including but  not  limited  to:  (a)  the  number  of  such
  persons: placed in the custody of the department, assigned to a specific
  department program, accorded temporary release, paroled or conditionally
  released,  paroled  or  conditionally  released and declared delinquent,
  recommitted to a  state  correctional  institution  upon  revocation  of
  parole  or  conditional release, or discharge upon maximum expiration of
  sentence; (b) the criminal history of  such  persons;  (c)  the  social,
  educational,  and vocational circumstances of any such persons; and, (d)
  the institutional, parole and conditional release programs and  behavior
  of  such  persons.  Provided,  however,  in  the  event  any statistical
  information on the ethnic background  of  the  inmate  population  of  a
  correctional facility or facilities is collected by the department, such
  statistical  information  shall  contain,  but  not  be  limited to, the
  following ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian;  (iii)  American
  Indian;  (iv)  Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)  Spanish speaking/Hispanic
  which category shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  following
  subcategories   consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto  Ricans;  (2)  Cubans;  (3)
  Dominicans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.
    2. The commissioner of correctional services shall make  rules  as  to
  the  privacy  of  records,  statistics  and other information collected,
  obtained and maintained by the department, its institutions or the board
  of parole and information obtained in an official capacity by  officers,
  employees or members thereof.
    3.  The  commissioner  of  correctional  services shall have access to
  records and criminal statistics collected by the  division  of  criminal
  justice services and the commissioner of criminal justice services shall
  have  access  to  records  and  criminal  statistics  collected  by  the
  department  of  correctional   services,   as   the   commissioners   of
  correctional  services  and  criminal  justice  services  shall mutually
  determine.
    4. The commissioner of the department of correctional  services  shall
  provide  an  annual  report  to  the  legislature  on  the  staffing  of
  correction officers  and  correction  sergeants  in  state  correctional
  facilities.  Such  report  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited to the
  following factors: the number of security posts on the current plot plan
  for  each  facility  that  have  been  closed  on  a  daily  basis,   by
  correctional  facility  security  classification  (minimum,  medium  and
  maximum); the number of security positions  eliminated  by  correctional
  facility   since   two  thousand  compared  to  the  number  of  inmates
  incarcerated in each such facility; a breakdown by correctional facility
  security classification (minimum, medium,  and  maximum)  of  the  staff
  hours  of  overtime  worked,  by  year since two thousand and the annual
  aggregate costs related to this overtime. In addition, such report shall
  be delineated by  correctional  facility  security  classification,  the
  annual  number  of  security  positions eliminated, the number of closed
  posts and amount of staff hours of  overtime  accrued  as  well  as  the
  overall  overtime  expenditures  that  resulted.  Such  report  shall be
  provided to the chairs of the senate finance, assembly ways  and  means,
  senate  crime  and  corrections  and  assembly  correction committees by
  December thirty-first.