§ 837-k. Safe house for children. 1. Within one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section, the division shall design and adopt an official symbol and sign which may use McGruff as created by the national crime prevention council if practicable, to be used to designate homes and businesses where a child […]
§ 837-n. Criminal history information of caregivers; requirements. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (a) “Caregiver” shall mean a person employed to provide fifteen or more hours of care per week to a child or children in the home of such a child or children. (b) “Criminal history information” shall mean a record […]
§ 837-o. Search for arson and sex offense conviction records of volunteer firefighter applicants. 1. Any person who applies for membership in a fire company, as such term is defined in section three of the volunteer firefighters’ benefit law, or who seeks to transfer as a member to another fire company, shall be required to […]
§ 837-p. Criminal history records search for certain licenses and registrations in the county of Westchester. 1. As used in this section: (a) “Commission” shall mean the Westchester county solid waste commission. (b) “Applicant” shall mean a person applying for a license or registration pursuant to chapter eight hundred twenty-six-a of the laws of Westchester […]
§ 837-q. Payments to Westchester county for policing special parkways. The commissioner of the division of criminal justice services is hereby authorized and directed, pursuant to annual appropriations, to make payments to Westchester county for costs associated with policing special parkways as defined in subdivision two of section seventy of the transportation law.
§ 837-r. Office of sex offender management. 1. Establishment of office. There is hereby established within the division of criminal justice services the office of sex offender management, hereinafter in this section referred to as “the office.” 2. Duties and responsibilities. The office, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, shall be responsible for […]
§ 837-s. Search for sex offense conviction records of emergency medical technician and other first responder applicants. 1. The chief officer of any volunteer ambulance company, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section three of the volunteer ambulance workers’ benefit law, any proprietary ambulance service, or any other ambulance or emergency medical […]
§ 837-t. Use of force reporting. 1. The chief of every police department, each county sheriff, and the superintendent of state police shall report to the division, in a form and manner as defined in regulations by the division, any instance or occurrence in which a police officer, as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section […]
§ 837-u. The division of criminal justice services, in conjunction with the chief administrator of the courts, shall collect data and report annually regarding pretrial release and detention. Such data and report shall contain information categorized by age, gender, racial and ethnic background; regarding the nature of the criminal offenses, including the top charge of […]
* § 837-v. Report of discharge of weapon. 1. Any law enforcement officer or peace officer who discharges his or her weapon while on duty or off duty under circumstances wherein a person could be struck by a bullet from the weapon, including situations wherein such officer discharges his or her weapon in the direction […]
* § 837-v. Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with respect to arrest-related deaths. 1. The chief of every police department, each county sheriff, and the superintendent of state police shall promptly report to the division any arrest-related death, disaggregated by county. The data shall include all information the division shall report pursuant to the […]
* § 837-w. Technological viability of microstamping-enabled firearms. 1. As used in this section, the terms “microstamping-enabled pistols” and “microstamping components” shall have the same meaning as defined in article two hundred sixty-five of the penal law. 2. The division or a designee shall within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this […]
* § 837-w. Blue alert system. 1. There is established within the division a blue alert system to aid in the identification, location and apprehension of any individual or individuals suspected of killing or seriously wounding any police officer. 2. For the purposes of this section: (a) The term “blue alert” shall mean information sent […]
* § 837-x. Cooperation with certain out-of-state investigations. 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Reproductive health services” shall have the same meaning as paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 570.17 of the criminal procedure law; and (b) “Legally protected health activity” shall have the same […]
* § 837-x. Cooperation with certain out-of-state investigations. No state or local law enforcement agency shall cooperate with or provide information to any individual or out-of-state agency or department regarding the provision, seeking, or assistance in provision or seeking of lawful gender-affirming care performed in this state. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the investigation […]
§ 838. Identification of unknown dead and missing persons. 1. Every county medical examiner and coroner shall promptly furnish the division and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice, with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight inch by eight inch fingerprint cards or the […]
§ 838-a. Maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits. 1. The following requirements shall apply to all sexual offense evidence kits surrendered to or collected by, at the request of, or with cooperation of a police agency or prosecutorial agency: (a) Each such police agency and prosecutorial agency shall submit any sexual offense evidence kits in […]
§ 838-b. Victim’s right to notice. Each police agency, prosecutorial agency and other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over a sexual offense shall, upon request of the victim who has consented to report such offense to law enforcement, provide the sexual offense victim with notice of the date and location at which sexual offense evidence […]
§ 839. Municipal police training council. 1. There is hereby created within the division a municipal police training council composed of ten members, who shall be selected as follows: (a) one shall be appointed by the governor who shall be a full-time faculty member of a college or university who teaches in the area of […]
§ 840. Functions, powers and duties of council. 1. The council may recommend to the governor rules and regulations with respect to: (a) The approval, or revocation thereof, of police training schools administered by municipalities; (b) Minimum courses of study, attendance requirements, and equipment and facilities to be required at approved municipal police training schools; […]
