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Assembly Bill A4678A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits recording of the entrance of a school ground

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2025-A4678 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1694
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9390, S8422

2025-A4678 - Summary

Prohibits recording of the entrance or exit of a school ground or the entrance or exit to a property that contains school grounds within its boundaries.

2025-A4678 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4678
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting recording of
   the entrance of a school ground
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 250.75 to
 read as follows:
 § 250.75 UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.
   1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   (A) "SCHOOL GROUND" MEANS  THE  OUTSIDE  PERIMETER  OF  ANY  BUILDING,
 STRUCTURE,  ATHLETIC  PLAYING FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND CONTAINED WITHIN
 THE REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY, PARO-
 CHIAL, INTERMEDIATE, JUNIOR HIGH, VOCATIONAL OR HIGH SCHOOL.
   (B) "SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS  DEFINED  BY
 SUBDIVISION  SIX  OF SECTION ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE
 EDUCATION LAW.
   2. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY WHEN
 WITH INTENT TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM ANOTHER PERSON, THEY:
   (A) BROADCAST OR RECORD THE ENTRANCE OR EXIT TO A SCHOOL GROUND OR THE
 ENTRANCE OR EXIT TO A PROPERTY THAT CONTAINS SCHOOL GROUNDS  WITHIN  ITS
 BOUNDARIES; OR
   (B)  USE  OR  INSTALL,  OR PERMIT THE UTILIZATION OR INSTALLATION OF A
 MECHANICAL, DIGITAL OR ELECTRONIC VIEWING DEVICE, CAMERA, CELLULAR PHONE
 OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF RECORDING,  STORING  OR  TRANSMITTING
 VISUAL  IMAGES  TO  VIEW,  BROADCAST  OR RECORD AN ENTRANCE OR EXIT TO A
 SCHOOL GROUND OR AN ENTRY OR EXIT TO A  PROPERTY  THAT  CONTAINS  SCHOOL
 GROUNDS WITHIN ITS BOUNDARIES.
   UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY SHALL BE PUNISHABLE ONLY BY A
 FINE OF NOT MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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2025-A4678A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1694
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9390, S8422

2025-A4678A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits recording of the entrance or exit of a school ground or the entrance or exit to a property that contains school grounds within its boundaries.

2025-A4678A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4678--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting  recording  of
   the entrance of a school ground

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 240.26 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  109
 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
 § 240.26 Harassment in the second degree.
   A  person  is  guilty  of  harassment  in the second degree when, with
 intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person:
   1. [He or she] THE ACTOR strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise  subjects
 such  other  person  to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do
 the same; or
   2. [He or she] THE ACTOR follows a person in or about a  public  place
 or places; or
   3.  [He or she] THE ACTOR engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly
 commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and  which
 serve no legitimate purpose[.]; OR
   4.  THE ACTOR EITHER (A) BROADCASTS OR RECORDS THE ENTRANCE OR EXIT TO
 SCHOOL GROUNDS OR THE ENTRANCE OR  EXIT  TO  A  PROPERTY  THAT  CONTAINS
 SCHOOL  GROUNDS  WITHIN  ITS  BOUNDARIES;  OR  (B)  USES OR INSTALLS, OR
 PERMITS THE UTILIZATION OR INSTALLATION  OF  A  MECHANICAL,  DIGITAL  OR
 ELECTRONIC  VIEWING  DEVICE, CAMERA, CELLULAR PHONE OR ANY OTHER INSTRU-
 MENT CAPABLE OF RECORDING, STORING  OR  TRANSMITTING  VISUAL  IMAGES  TO
 VIEW,  BROADCAST  OR RECORD AN ENTRANCE OR EXIT TO A SCHOOL GROUND OR AN
 ENTRY OR EXIT TO A PROPERTY THAT  CONTAINS  SCHOOL  GROUNDS  WITHIN  ITS
 BOUNDARIES.
   Subdivisions  two  and three of this section shall not apply to activ-
 ities regulated by the national labor relations  act,  as  amended,  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04760-02-5

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