Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 21, 2012 |
print number 4872a |
Mar 21, 2012 |
amend and recommit to codes |
Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to codes |
Feb 08, 2011 |
referred to codes |
Assembly Bill A4872
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SIMOTAS
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
William Colton
Earlene Hooper
2011-A4872 - Details
2011-A4872 - Summary
Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.
2011-A4872 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4872 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 8, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, the criminal procedure law, the family court act and the civil practice law and rules, in relation to protecting the identity of undercover public officers and employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 50-a of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter 137 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 1. All personnel records, used to evaluate performance toward contin- ued employment or promotion, under the control of any police agency or department of the state or any political subdivision thereof including authorities or agencies maintaining police forces of individuals defined as police officers in section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law and such personnel records under the control of a sheriff's department or a department of correction of individuals employed as correction officers and such personnel records under the control of a paid fire department or force of individuals employed as firefighters or firefighter/paramedics and such personnel records under the control of the division of parole for individuals defined as peace officers pursu- ant to subdivisions twenty-three and twenty-three-a of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law shall be considered confidential and not subject to inspection or review without the express written consent of such police officer, firefighter, firefighter/paramedic, correction officer or peace officer within the division of parole except as may be mandated by lawful court order. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, PERSONNEL RECORDS SHALL INCLUDE ANY REPORT, PAPER, PICTURE, PHOTOGRAPH, COURT FILE OR OTHER DOCUMENT, IN THE CUSTODY OR POSSESSION OF ANY PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE, WHICH TENDS TO IDENTIFY BY NAME OR IMAGE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS PERFORMING OR HAS PERFORMED OFFICIAL DUTIES IN A COVERT OR UNDERCOVER EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04209-02-1
co-Sponsors
William Colton
Earlene Hooper
2011-A4872A (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-A4872A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.
2011-A4872A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4872--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 8, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COLTON, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, the criminal procedure law, the family court act and the civil practice law and rules, in relation to protecting the identity of undercover public officers and employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 50-a of the civil rights law, as amended by section 53 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 1. All personnel records used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion, under the control of any police agency or department of the state or any political subdivision thereof including authorities or agencies maintaining police forces of individuals defined as police officers in section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law and such personnel records under the control of a sheriff's department or a department of correction of individuals employed as correction officers and such personnel records under the control of a paid fire department or force of individuals employed as firefighters or firefighter/paramedics and such personnel records under the control of the department of corrections and community supervision for individuals defined as peace officers pursuant to subdivisions twenty-three and twenty-three-a of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law shall be considered confidential and not subject to inspection or review without the express written consent of such police officer, firefighter, firefighter/paramedic, correction officer or peace officer within the department of corrections and community supervision except as may be mandated by lawful court order. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, PERSONNEL EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04209-04-2
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