Bill Text: NY S02794 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a statewide public database covering every local police department, each county sheriff's office, the division of the state police and every agency that employs a peace officer in this state, which shall compile the names of any police or peace officer who has had his or her employment terminated due to misconduct.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02794-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2794

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a  state-
          wide law enforcement officer misconduct database

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  837-w
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  837-w.  Statewide  law  enforcement  officer  misconduct  database.
     4  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the division shall
     5  establish a  statewide  public  database  covering  every  local  police
     6  department,  each  county  sheriff's  office,  the division of the state
     7  police and every agency that employs a  peace  officer  in  this  state,
     8  which shall compile the names of any police or peace officer who has had
     9  his  or  her  employment terminated due to misconduct, including but not
    10  limited to domestic violence, sexual violence, assault  and  harassment,
    11  any  criminal  offense  against  a  minor,  excessive  use of force, any
    12  violation of 18 U.S.C. 242,  perjury,  falsifying  a  police  report  or
    13  planting  and  destroying evidence, and deadly physical assault; as well
    14  as any termination or complaints against  such  officer.  The  chief  of
    15  every  police  department,  each  county  sheriff, the superintendent of
    16  state police and the person in charge of every  agency  that  employs  a
    17  peace  officer in this state shall report to the division, in a form and
    18  manner as defined in regulations by the division, all information neces-
    19  sary to compile and maintain the database established pursuant  to  this
    20  section.
    21    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    23  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    24  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    25  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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