Assembly Bill A1668

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1668

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the county law and the public officers law, in  relation
  to prohibiting the broadcast of a 911 call

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 308 of the county law, as  amended
by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  (A) Records, in whatever form they may be kept, of calls made to a
municipality's E911 system shall not be made available to or obtained by
any entity or person, other than that municipality's public safety agen-
cy, another government agency or body, or a private entity or  a  person
providing  medical, ambulance or other emergency services, and shall not
be utilized for any commercial purpose other than the provision of emer-
gency services.
  (B) NO ENTITY OR PERSON SHALL PLAY A RECORDING OF A CALL MADE OVER THE
E911 SYSTEM ON A BROADCAST MEDIUM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO  RADIO,
TELEVISION,  OR  THE INTERNET AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION
TWO OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-B OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW.  THIS
SECTION  SHALL NOT PROHIBIT READING OR DISPLAYING A TRANSCRIPT OF SUCH A
RECORDING. WHOEVER VIOLATES THIS SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A  FINE  OF
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION.
  S  2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 89 of the public offi-
cers law, as amended by section 11 of part U of chapter 61 of  the  laws
of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (b)  An  unwarranted  invasion of personal privacy includes, but shall
not be limited to:
  i. disclosure of employment, medical or credit histories  or  personal
references of applicants for employment;
  ii. disclosure of items involving the medical or personal records of a
client or patient in a medical facility;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00417-01-5
              

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  iii.  sale  or  release  of lists of names and addresses if such lists
would be used for solicitation or fund-raising purposes;
  iv.  disclosure  of  information  of a personal nature when disclosure
would result in economic or personal hardship to the subject  party  and
such information is not relevant to the work of the agency requesting or
maintaining it;
  v.  disclosure  of information of a personal nature reported in confi-
dence to an agency and not relevant to the ordinary work of such agency;
  vi. information of a personal nature contained in a  workers'  compen-
sation  record,  except  as provided by section one hundred ten-a of the
workers' compensation law; [or]
  vii. disclosure of electronic contact information, such as  an  e-mail
address  or  a  social  network username, that has been collected from a
taxpayer under section one hundred four of the real property tax law[.];
OR
  VIII. A RECORDING OF A CALL MADE OVER THE E911 SYSTEM  AS  DEFINED  IN
SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE COUNTY LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.