Bill Text: NY A09390 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits recording of the entrance or exit of a school ground or the entrance or exit to a property that contains school grounds within its boundaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - print number 9390b [A09390 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09390-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9390--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from
          said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting recording of
          the entrance of a school ground

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

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 250.75 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 250.75 Unlawful surveillance of school property.
     4    1. As used in this section:
     5    (a) "School ground" means  the  outside  perimeter  of  any  building,
     6  structure,  athletic  playing field, playground or land contained within
     7  the real property boundary line of a public or private elementary, paro-
     8  chial, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high school.
     9    (b) "School administrator" shall have the same meaning as  defined  by
    10  subdivision  six  of section one thousand one hundred twenty-five of the
    11  education law.
    12    2. A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance of school property when
    13  with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, they:
    14    (a) broadcast or record the entrance or exit to a school ground or the
    15  entrance or exit to a property that contains school grounds  within  its
    16  boundaries; or
    17    (b)  use  or  install,  or permit the utilization or installation of a
    18  mechanical, digital or electronic viewing device, camera, cellular phone
    19  or any other instrument capable of recording,  storing  or  transmitting
    20  visual  images  to  view,  broadcast  or record an entrance or exit to a
    21  school ground or an entry or exit to a  property  that  contains  school
    22  grounds within its boundaries.
    23    Unlawful surveillance of school property shall be punishable only by a
    24  fine of not more than one thousand dollars per day.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    26  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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