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
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                                         9390--A

                   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

        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 in or on or within any building,  structure,
     6  athletic  playing  field,  playground  or land contained within the real
     7  property boundary line of a public  or  private  elementary,  parochial,
     8  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  to  a  school ground or the
    15  entrance to a property that contains school grounds within  its  bounda-
    16  ries; 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 to a school
    21  ground or an entry to a property that contains school grounds within its
    22  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.
                                                                   LBD13676-06-4