New York City evaluation pilot finds most competency exams in Queens finished within target times
The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice analyzed an expedited process at the Queens Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation Court Clinic for orders issued between July 1, 2018 and April 30, 2019. The goal was to finish exams within 7 business days for misdemeanors and 14 for felonies. Overall 82.5 percent met their targets, 85.6 percent of felony cases and 77.1 percent of misdemeanors.
The report says a 2016 city analysis found people ordered into 730 evaluations spent almost three times as long in jail as similarly charged people, and that a late-2017 review found Brooklyn Supreme Court exams averaged 43 days from order to report. Exams were more likely to run late when records or extra testing were needed, when the defendant was out of custody, or when an exam had to be rescheduled.
The pilot followed the 2018 move to place the four city court clinics under NYC Health + Hospitals' Correctional Health Services.
Source: Queens 730 Process Evaluation — NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
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