Bill Text: NY A02671 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides civilian review boards with the option to petition the court for an order that would permit the disclosure of all personnel records if those records relate to an officer who was involved in a police shooting or police misconduct.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02671 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02671-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2671 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 24, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to civilian complaint review boards 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-a of the civil rights law, as 2 amended by chapter 516 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. All personnel records used to evaluate performance toward continued 5 employment or promotion, under the control of any police agency or 6 department of the state or any political subdivision thereof including 7 authorities or agencies maintaining police forces of individuals defined 8 as police officers in section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law and 9 such personnel records under the control of a sheriff's department or a 10 department of correction of individuals employed as correction officers 11 and such personnel records under the control of a paid fire department 12 or force of individuals employed as firefighters or 13 firefighter/paramedics and such personnel records under the control of 14 the department of corrections and community supervision for individuals 15 defined as peace officers pursuant to subdivisions twenty-three and 16 twenty-three-a of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law and such 17 personnel records under the control of a probation department for indi- 18 viduals defined as peace officers pursuant to subdivision twenty-four of 19 section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law shall be considered confiden- 20 tial and not subject to inspection or review without the express written 21 consent of such police officer, firefighter, firefighter/paramedic, 22 correction officer or peace officer within the department of corrections 23 and community supervision or probation department except as may be 24 mandated by lawful court order, and except that a member of a civilian 25 complaint review board that is responsible for investigating police EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00130-01-9A. 2671 2 1 misconduct may petition the court for an order permitting disclosure of 2 all personnel records if those records relate to an officer who was 3 involved in a police shooting or police misconduct. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.