Assembly Bill A8248

                             
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                                   8248
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to the access of
   certain information by the New York city department of investigation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 372 of the social services law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) ALL SUCH RECORDS RELATING  TO  SUCH  CHILDREN  SHALL  BE  OPEN  TO
 INSPECTION BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATION FOR PURPOSES
 OF  AN  INVESTIGATION  WITHIN  THE  LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
 INVESTIGATION.
   § 2. Subparagraph (m) of paragraph (A) of subdivision 4 of section 422
 of the social services law, as amended by chapter  12  of  the  laws  of
 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (m)  the  New  York city department of investigation provided however,
 that no information identifying the subjects  of  the  report  or  other
 persons named in the report shall be made available to the department of
 investigation  unless  such information is essential to an investigation
 within the legal authority of the department of investigation  [and  the
 state department of social services gives prior approval];
   § 3. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 422
 of  the  social  services  law, as amended by chapter 256 of the laws of
 2014, is amended and a  new  subparagraph  (vi)  is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (v)  to a district attorney, an assistant district attorney, an inves-
 tigator employed in the office of a district attorney,  or  to  a  sworn
 officer  of  the  division  of  state police, of a city, county, town or
 village police department or of a  county  sheriff's  office  when  such
 official  verifies  that  the  report  is necessary to conduct an active

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 investigation or prosecution of  a  violation  of  subdivision  four  of
 section 240.50 of the penal law[.]; AND
   (VI)  TO THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATION FOR THE PURPOSE
 OF INVESTIGATING AN ALLEGATION OF AN IMPROPERLY CONDUCTED  INVESTIGATION
 BY  THE  LOCAL  CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE OR WHEN AN INSPECTOR GENERAL OF
 THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATION DETERMINES THAT THE REPORT
 IS NECESSARY TO CONDUCT AN ACTIVE INVESTIGATION OF A VIOLATION OF SUBDI-
 VISION FOUR OF SECTION 240.50 OF THE PENAL LAW.
   § 4. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2  of  section  496  of  the  social
 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws
 of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   (m)  the New York city department of investigation; provided, however,
 that no information identifying the subjects  of  the  report  or  other
 persons named in the report shall be made available to the department of
 investigation  unless  such information is essential to an investigation
 within the legal authority of the department of investigation  [and  the
 justice  center  or  the  applicable  state oversight agency gives prior
 approval];
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.