A recent change to the New York State Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) is aimed at promoting public health by not discouraging safe sex practices by persons engaged in prostitution and other sex trafficking. Section 60.47 of the CPL prohibits police from considering possession of condoms as cause to arrest for certain prostitution and loitering offenses. The law also bars the fact of possession of condoms by a person at any trial, hearing or other prosecution for those same offenses.
Listen to this podcast to learn more: http://www.nychiefs.org/podcast/APB154_Condoms_Not_Evidence.mp3
Podcast by: Mark A. Spawn, Law Enforcement Consultant, Chief of Police/Retired
More podcasts are available on the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police website: http://www.nychiefs.org/
