Bill Text: NY A09734 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9734 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts "Lamont Dottin's Law"; relates to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults; establishes uniform standards for searching for missing persons; expands state databanks to approach not only the problem of missing children but missing adults as well; requires police departments to establish a trained missing person specialist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A09734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09734-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9734
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to reporting duties with
          respect to missing children and adults
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Lamont Dottin's law".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  838-a  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  838-a.  Plans  for  prompt  and uniform standards for searching for
     6  missing persons. 1. In consultation with the division  of  state  police
     7  and other appropriate agencies, the division shall, on or before January
     8  first,  two thousand seventeen, adopt and implement and thereafter regu-
     9  larly update a uniform plan for searching for missing persons. Such plan
    10  shall involve a pro-active, coordinated response,  planned  in  advance,
    11  that  is  triggered  immediately  upon confirmation by a police officer,
    12  peace officer or police agency of a report of a missing person.
    13    2. Such plans shall, at the minimum, require that:
    14    (a) the name of the missing person, a description of  the  person  and
    15  other  pertinent  information  be immediately dispatched over the police
    16  communication system to local, state and national agencies; and
    17    (b) there shall be no presumption that persons  between  the  ages  of
    18  nineteen and sixty-four are not missing.
    19    3.  Police  agencies not connected with the basic police communication
    20  system in use in such jurisdiction shall transmit  such  information  to
    21  the nearest or most convenient teletypewriter point, from which point it
    22  shall be immediately dispatched, in conformity with the orders, rules or
    23  regulations governing the system.
    24    4.  No dispatch or transmission of a report concerning missing persons
    25  shall be required by such plan if the  investigating  police  department
    26  determines  that  the  release  of such information would jeopardize the
    27  investigation or  the  safety  of  the  person,  or  otherwise  requests
    28  forbearance.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07375-03-6