Bill Text: NY A08208 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for a formal process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance of an AMBER alert.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A08208 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08208-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8208--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for a formal
          process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance  of  an
          AMBER alert

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (vi) and (vii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivi-
     2  sion 14 of section 837-f of the executive law, as amended by chapter 381
     3  of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (vi) police agencies not connected with the basic police communication
     5  system  in use in such jurisdiction may transmit such information to the
     6  nearest or most convenient electronic entry point, from which  point  it
     7  may  be  promptly  dispatched,  in  conformity with the orders, rules or
     8  regulations governing the system; [and]
     9    (vii) a formal process is established by which a parent or legal guar-
    10  dian may request that a missing child alert be  issued.    Such  request
    11  shall be made to the division of state police for review; and
    12    (viii)  no  dispatch  or transmission of a report concerning a missing
    13  child shall be required by such plan, except as provided in subparagraph
    14  (vii) of this paragraph, if the investigating police department advises,
    15  in its discretion, that the release of such information  may  jeopardize
    16  the  investigation  or  the safety of the child, or requests forbearance
    17  for any reason.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13403-02-3