Mayor Adams has quietly expanded the portfolio of Kaz Daughtry, his controversial public security deputy, granting him the ability to assist run the legislation enforcement items of a slew of civilian New York Metropolis companies, together with the departments of Sanitation and Parks.
The deputy mayor for public security, a place Adams reintroduced to the municipal forms upon taking workplace in 2022, was beforehand tasked with simply supervising the departments of Correction, Fireplace and Probation, in addition to some smaller companies and workplaces centered on felony justice.
However in an government order issued Monday, Adams wrote that the general public security deputy is now additionally to “maintain liaison with and review the activities of” the legislation enforcement items of 10 civilian companies, together with the departments of Parks, Sanitation, Well being, Homeless Providers, Environmental Safety and Citywide Administrative Providers.
The opposite 4 municipal companies whose legislation enforcement items the general public security deputy will now additionally assist oversee are the Administration for Youngsters’s Providers, the Human Assets Administration, the Taxi and Limousine Fee and H + H, the town’s public hospital system, Adams’ order states.
The ten companies, together with their legislation enforcement items, beforehand reported to different deputy mayors.
Mayor Adams and Kaz Daughtry on Nov. 13, 2024. (Barry Williams/ New York Every day Information)
Spokespeople for Adams didn’t instantly remark Tuesday on what prompted the reorganization or whether or not Daughtry’s expanded duties include any particular targets.
Adams’ new order additionally instructs Jacques Jiha, his price range director, to report on to him as a substitute of Randy Mastro, a Giuliani administration alum not too long ago picked to turn out to be Adams’ new first deputy mayor. The chain-of-command shuffle associated to Jiha was first reported by Politico.
The order offers Daughtry, an ex-NYPD official and shut ally of Adams who has been on the middle of quite a few controversies, a much wider set of duties than each his predecessors, Chauncey Parker and Philip Banks, had on paper.
Officers assigned to the legislation enforcement items of the ten companies in query usually don’t wield firearms, however are outfitted with non-lethal weapons like batons. Additionally they have the ability to conduct sure arrests and situation summonses for offenses on the premises managed by their companies. As an illustration, the Division of Homeless Providers’ police pressure patrols metropolis shelters.
The enlargement of Daughtry’s portfolio comes after he has confronted scrutiny over his tenure on the NYPD.
Because the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of operations, he helped run the division’s Neighborhood Response Group, whose members have confronted intense criticism over misconduct accusations. Daughtry has over the course of his personal police profession racked up dozens of misconduct complaints and is dealing with an lively Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit over allegations that he body-slammed a protester in 2023.
Daughtry was tapped for the general public security position this month after Parker and three different deputy mayors resigned over considerations about Adams’ means to control the town amid the Trump Justice Division’s effort to dismiss his corruption indictment with some uncommon circumstances connected, together with a request for help with immigration enforcement. Adams has denied a quid professional quo with Trump and pleaded not responsible to his felony prices.
Although his duties have been formally extra restricted than Daughtry’s, Banks, an ex-NYPD chief shut with Adams, was recognized to as deputy mayor for public security precise vital affect over the operations of the Police Division. Banks resigned in October after being ensnared in a federal corruption investigation.
Initially Printed: March 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT
