New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in Albany on Tuesday that he would support allowing the state’s judges to use a “tightly defined” measure of a defendant’s “dangerousness,” or threat to public safety, to decide if they should be incarcerated before trial as part of legislation to overhaul the state’s current system on cash bail.

De Blasio told reporters at the state capitol that his office has been involved in conversations with the Legislature on upcoming reforms to the state’s laws on bail, criminal discovery and the right to a speedy trial, and that he expects those reforms to be included in the state budget over the next week.