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                                   8263
 
                        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. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  training  of  local
   police departments on the address confidentiality program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. (A)  THE  COUNCIL,  IN  COORDINATION  WITH  THE  OFFICE  OF  VICTIM
 SERVICES,  THE  OFFICE  FOR  THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE
 DEPARTMENT OF STATE,  SHALL  PROMULGATE  POLICIES  AND  PROCEDURES  WITH
 REGARD  TO  TRAINING  ON THE ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM PURSUANT TO
 SECTION ONE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER WHICH SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED TO:
   (I) TRAINING ON THE PURPOSE AND BENEFITS OF THE ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALI-
 TY PROGRAM;
   (II)  PROCEDURES  FOR  IDENTIFYING  AND  ASSISTING  VICTIMS WHO MAY BE
 ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH PROGRAM;
   (III) GUIDELINES FOR MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY AND  HANDLING  SENSI-
 TIVE INFORMATION RELATED TO PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS; AND
   (IV) PROTOCOLS FOR COORDINATING WITH THE OFFICE OF VICTIM SERVICES AND
 OTHER AGENCIES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES TO PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.
   (B)  SUCH TRAINING SHALL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL POLICE OFFICERS AND SHALL
 BE INCORPORATED INTO  EXISTING  TRAINING  PROGRAMS  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO,  THE  BASIC  COURSE  FOR  POLICE  OFFICERS  AND  IN-SERVICE
 PROGRAMS.
   (C) THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE  CONFIRMA-
 TION OF COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR ALL POLICE DEPART-
 MENTS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED EIGHT OF
 THIS CHAPTER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   §  2.  Subdivision  8 of section 108 of the executive law, as added by
 chapter 502 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   8. Report to the legislature. The secretary shall submit to the legis-
 lature,  no  later  than  February  first  of  each  year, a report that
 includes for each county, the total number of applications received, the
 total number of persons participating in the program established by this
 section during the previous calendar year and the total number of pieces
 of mail forwarded to program participants during the  previous  calendar
 year.  THE REPORT SHALL INCLUDE CONFIRMATION FROM THE DIVISION OF CRIMI-
 NAL  JUSTICE SERVICES OF THE DATE THAT EACH COUNTY RECEIVED THE TRAINING
 MATERIALS AND WHEN THE TRAINING WAS COMPLETED BY EACH POLICE DEPARTMENT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.