Bill Text: NY A00940 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) and mandatory postings of policies and annual reporting requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-06 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [A00940 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00940-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         940--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule
          3,  sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the use  of  automatic
          license plate reader systems

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

     1    Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. The council shall, in addition:
     4    (a) Develop, maintain  and  disseminate  a  minimum  standards  policy
     5  governing the use of automatic license plate reader systems. The minimum
     6  standards  policy  shall  include,  but not be limited to, provisions on
     7  permissible uses of the automatic license plate reader technology,  data
     8  sharing and dissemination, prohibited uses, record retention and manage-
     9  ment,  and  training.  For  purposes of this section, "automatic license
    10  plate reader system" or "ALPR system" shall mean a system of one or more
    11  mobile or fixed high-speed cameras used  in  combination  with  computer
    12  algorithms  to  convert  images of license plates into computer-readable
    13  data.
    14    (b) Recommend to the governor, the temporary president of  the  senate
    15  and  the  speaker of the assembly, rules and regulations with respect to
    16  the establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis of  a  training
    17  program  for  all current and new police officers regarding the policies
    18  and procedures established pursuant  to  this  subdivision,  along  with
    19  recommendations for periodic retraining of police officers.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02067-04-2
        A. 940--B                           2

     1    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 837-x to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  837-x.  Disclosure  of  the  minimum standards policy for automatic
     4  license plate readers by law enforcement agencies.  All state and  local
     5  enforcement  agencies shall conspicuously post the minimum standards for
     6  the use of automatic license plate reader systems policy, as promulgated
     7  under section eight hundred forty of this article on its website, or  if
     8  such  law  enforcement  agency  does not maintain a website, in its main
     9  office. Such policy shall be made available to the public upon request.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    11  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    12  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    13  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    14  effective date.