Peace Officer Summons at NYC Benefits and SNAP Centers

Local Law 161 data on summonses issued by peace officers at New York City Benefits Access and SNAP Centers. The dataset is disaggregated by the issuance date, center location, offense type, and the civil or criminal nature of the summons. It is published by the City of New York and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in summons volume over time using the date column.
• Identify which job center or SNAP center location has the highest summons activity.
• Compare the frequency of civil versus criminal summonses for different offense types.
• Model the relationship between specific offenses and the resulting summons classification (civil/criminal).

Strengths

• Disaggregated data by four key dimensions: date, location, offense, and summons type.
• Published by the authoritative City of New York government.
• Last updated in April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and temporal coverage of the records.
• Sample data and specific column names are unavailable for verification.
• Potential geographic bias limited to New York City operations.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Collected from peace officers at Benefits Access Centers and SNAP Centers as mandated by Local Law 161.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-05.

Geography

New York City, USA.