STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6887 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing police organization liaisons in immigrant communities 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-t 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-t. Police organization liaison in immigrant communities. 1. 4 There is established in the county of Westchester a "police organization 5 liaison in immigrant communities" program (POLICe). The program is to be 6 funded annually in an amount not less than five hundred thousand dollars 7 per year, for the purpose of providing at least five competitive grants 8 to municipalities in the county, to create at least one police liaison 9 in immigrant communities position within said municipality's police 10 department. 11 2. The role of POLICe is to work with members of the community who are 12 immigrants within that jurisdiction, regardless of federal immigration 13 status, and the local law enforcement agency, to ensure the needs of the 14 immigrant community are being properly met by law enforcement without 15 stigma, fear or reprisal. 16 3. POLICe staff under this section shall be a civilian position, 17 exempted from any state or federal laws related to cooperative law 18 enforcement with state or federal immigration agencies. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13431-01-7