Bill Text: NY A03489 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits public broadcast of 911 calls over radio, television or internet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to local governments [A03489 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A03489-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3489 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 25, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GABRYSZAK, MILLMAN, JEFFRIES, REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the county law and the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting the broadcast of a 911 call THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 308 of the county law, as amended 2 by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 3 4. (A) Records, in whatever form they may be kept, of calls made to a 4 municipality's E911 system shall not be made available to or obtained by 5 any entity or person, other than that municipality's public safety agen- 6 cy, another government agency or body, or a private entity or a person 7 providing medical, ambulance or other emergency services, and shall not 8 be utilized for any commercial purpose other than the provision of emer- 9 gency services. 10 (B) NO ENTITY OR PERSON SHALL PLAY A RECORDING OF A CALL MADE OVER THE 11 E911 SYSTEM ON A BROADCAST MEDIUM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO RADIO, 12 TELEVISION, OR THE INTERNET AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION 13 TWO OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-B OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW. THIS 14 SECTION SHALL NOT PROHIBIT READING OR DISPLAYING A TRANSCRIPT OF SUCH A 15 RECORDING. WHOEVER VIOLATES THIS SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE OF 16 FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION. 17 S 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 89 of the public offi- 18 cers law, as added by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, subparagraph iii 19 as amended by chapter 223 of the laws of 2008 and subparagraph v as 20 amended and subparagraph vi as added by chapter 545 of the laws of 1998, 21 is amended to read as follows: 22 (b) An unwarranted invasion of personal privacy includes, but shall 23 not be limited to: 24 i. disclosure of employment, medical or credit histories or personal 25 references of applicants for employment; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00558-01-1 A. 3489 2 1 ii. disclosure of items involving the medical or personal records of a 2 client or patient in a medical facility; 3 iii. sale or release of lists of names and addresses if such lists 4 would be used for solicitation or fund-raising purposes; 5 iv. disclosure of information of a personal nature when disclosure 6 would result in economic or personal hardship to the subject party and 7 such information is not relevant to the work of the agency requesting or 8 maintaining it; [or] 9 v. disclosure of information of a personal nature reported in confi- 10 dence to an agency and not relevant to the ordinary work of such agency; 11 [or] 12 vi. information of a personal nature contained in a workers' compen- 13 sation record, except as provided by section one hundred ten-a of the 14 workers' compensation law[.]; OR 15 VII. A RECORDING OF A CALL MADE OVER THE E911 SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN 16 SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE COUNTY LAW. 17 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.