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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for a formal
   process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance  of  an
   AMBER alert
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (vi) and (vii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivi-
 sion 14 of section 837-f of the executive law, as amended by chapter 381
 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows:
   (vi) police agencies not connected with the basic police communication
 system  in use in such jurisdiction may transmit such information to the
 nearest or most convenient electronic entry point, from which  point  it
 may  be  promptly  dispatched,  in  conformity with the orders, rules or
 regulations governing the system; [and]
   (vii) A FORMAL PROCESS IS ESTABLISHED BY WHICH A PARENT OR LEGAL GUAR-
 DIAN MAY REQUEST THAT A MISSING CHILD ALERT BE  ISSUED.    SUCH  REQUEST
 SHALL BE MADE TO THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE FOR REVIEW; AND
   (VIII)  no  dispatch  or transmission of a report concerning a missing
 child shall be required by such plan, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBPARAGRAPH
 (VII) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, if the investigating police department advises,
 in its discretion, that the release of such information  may  jeopardize
 the  investigation  or  the safety of the child, or requests forbearance
 for any reason.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06683-01-5