Bill Text: NY A02603 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Protects the right of privacy of victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the transmission of the HIV virus, who are under the age of 18; provides that the gender and address of victims under the age of eighteen be kept confidential.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A02603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02603-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2603
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, KOLB, OAKS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law,  in  relation  to  protecting  the
          right  of privacy of victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the
          transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus,  under  the  age  of
          eighteen, by prohibiting the disclosure of certain characteristics
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 50-b of the civil rights  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  320  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The identity of any victim of a sex offense, as defined in  article
     5  one hundred thirty or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law,
     6  or of an offense involving the alleged transmission of the human immuno-
     7  deficiency virus, shall be confidential.  Any characteristic of a person
     8  under  the  age of eighteen including, but not limited to, age or gender
     9  and such person's address shall  be  confidential.  Additionally,  if  a
    10  victim  is  under the age of eighteen and is related to the accused, the
    11  relation shall be confidential. No report, paper,  picture,  photograph,
    12  court  file  or  other  documents,  in  the custody or possession of any
    13  public officer or employee, which identifies such a victim shall be made
    14  available for public inspection. No  such  public  officer  or  employee
    15  shall  disclose  any  portion of any police report, court file, or other
    16  document, which tends to identify such a victim except  as  provided  in
    17  subdivision two of this section.
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04489-01-7