Bill Text: NY A02669 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the confidentiality of the identity of undercover officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A02669 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02669-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2669 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to the confidentiality of the identity of an undercover officer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 2 50-g to read as follows: 3 § 50-g. Identity of an undercover officer. The identity of any under- 4 cover officer shall be confidential if such disclosure would endanger 5 the officer or compromise the officer's effectiveness. No report, paper, 6 picture, photograph, court file or other documents, in the custody or 7 possession of any public officer or employee, which identifies such an 8 officer, shall be made available for public inspection. No such public 9 officer or employee shall disclose any portion of any police report or 10 other document which tends to identify such a person without the express 11 written consent of such undercover officer or being mandated by lawful 12 court order. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06913-01-3
