Fall 2018 DOCCS Today
Fall 2018 It is made up of a Steering Committee comprised From the Desk of of my Executive Team, representatives of the the Commissioner Office of Diversity Management, the Division of Acting Commissioner Program Planning, and Research and Evaluation. There are also six subcommittees. Anthony J. Annucci New York State Department of Key staff and stakeholders serve on the CDMAC Corrections and Community subcommittees. Some subcommittees focus on Supervision trends in DOCCS hiring, promotion, and retention practices, or identifying DOCCS is a large and diverse agency with disproportionalities and determining whether approximately 29,000 employees statewide. In trends negatively impact staff, visitors and addition, the Department is responsible for volunteers, as well as incarcerated individuals running 54 prisons with over 48,000 and parolees. Other subcommittees work to incarcerated individuals confined therein, and carry out the goals of the CDMAC, which supervising, in the community, 36,000 parolees include, but are not limited to establishing or — all from different walks of life and ethnicities. revising appropriate curriculum to address implicit bias within the Department, reinforcing That’s why I established the Commissioner’s DOCCS policies on diversity and inclusion, and Diversity Management Advisory Council getting the word out about the CDMAC and its (CDMAC) in January, 2017. The CDMAC will accomplishments. help us promote fairness and equity in determining how staff, incarcerated individuals, CDMAC Chair Osbourne McKay, Deputy parolees, visitors, and volunteers, interact and Commissioner for Correctional Industries, are treated. It establishes benchmarks regarding Compliance Standards & Diversity, and Vice DOCCS strengths, as well as challenges and Chair Tina Stanford, Esq., Chairwoman of the opportunities for improvement.
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