Bill Text: NY A01585 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a freedom of information law exception to public disclosure of records if disclosure would endanger the health or safety of persons unless the benefits of disclosure outweigh the need for secrecy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to governmental operations [A01585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01585-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1585
                              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. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers law, in relation to freedom of
         information law exempting disclosure when danger to life or safety  of
         a person may result
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of the  public
    2  officers  law, as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2003, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (f) if disclosed could endanger the life  or  safety  of  any  person,
    5  UNLESS THE BENEFITS OF DISCLOSURE OUTWEIGH THE NEED FOR SECRECY;
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06144-01-5