THE ADOPTED CONSTITUTION OF THE

New York Correction History Society

ARTICLE III
-- Membership --

The Adopted
NYCHS
Constitution
& Bylaws

Individual membership in the society shall be open to --

1. At all correctional agencies throughout the City and State:

-- current and former employees,

-- their families' interested members,

-- the officers and employees of their agencies' recognized unions,

-- current and former officials and employees of their agencies' oversight boards or commissions,

-- current and former employees of their agencies' contract service providers,

-- their agencies' recognized volunteers, and

-- members of their agencies' community and youth outreach programs (for example: Explorer Scout Posts).
The Constitution and Bylaws document, adopted as drafted, can be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

2. At accredited colleges, universities and technical institutes throughout the City and State:

-- professors and instructors in correctional subjects, and

-- students pursuing correctional studies.

3. Specialists --

-- judges who monitor or have monitored correctional agencies, those judges' staffs and others assisting in those monitorings;

-- members and staffs of legislative committees whose mandate specifically includes correctional issues;

-- journalists who regularly cover correction-related news.

-- officials and full-time employees of community-based organizations engaged in post-release rehabilitative and support programs for former inmates of correctional agencies that enter into working relationships with the society.

4. Individuals whose current or past correction-related activities and/or whose services to the society warrant membership, in the judgment of the society's Membership Committee.

ARTICLE IV
-- Annual Meeting --

The annual meeting of the society shall be held in April.

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