ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Some Rochester-area police chiefs are expressing dismay at the latest parole reform, the Less is More Act, signed into law in New York.

Members of the Monroe County Police Chiefs Association say they were not notified of the changes on the way, or that more than a dozen local inmates would be released Tuesday.

Signed last Friday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the law changes the standard of evidence and other procedures when determining whether to revoke community supervision for a parolee.

While the law was taking effect in March, Hochul says her team was working to release a number of eligible people earlier, including nearly 200 people from Rikers Island in New York City on Friday.

The governor said that putting parolees back in jail for technical violations only traps them.

The head of the Monroe County Police Chiefs Association says otherwise.

"Someone violates their curfew, someone tests positive for the presence of drugs in their urine, [or] they hang out with other felons, these are all little rules put in place to keep them on a straight and narrow lifestyle,” said Gates Police Chief and Monroe County Police Chiefs Association President James VanBrederode. “We've found when they start to violate those technical violations, they end up going off and getting re-arrested."

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says the New York State Department of Corrections and the new law allowed for 22 warrants to be lifted Tuesday.

Seventeen people in the jail were released. Five people still had outstanding charges against them and they remained held.