Bill Text: NY S01405 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a statewide public database covering every local police department, each county sheriff's office, the division of the state police and every agency that employs a peace officer in this state, which shall compile the names of any police or peace officer who has had their employment terminated due to misconduct.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01405 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01405-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1405

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a  state-
          wide law enforcement officer misconduct database

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  837-y
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  837-y.  Statewide  law  enforcement  officer  misconduct  database.
     4  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the division shall
     5  establish a  statewide  public  database  covering  every  local  police
     6  department,  each  county  sheriff's  office,  the division of the state
     7  police and every agency that employs a  peace  officer  in  this  state,
     8  which shall compile the names of any police or peace officer who has had
     9  their employment terminated due to misconduct, including but not limited
    10  to domestic violence, sexual violence, assault and harassment, any crim-
    11  inal  offense  against a minor, excessive use of force, any violation of
    12  18 U.S.C. 242, perjury, falsifying  a  police  report  or  planting  and
    13  destroying  evidence, and deadly physical assault; as well as any termi-
    14  nation or complaints against such officer. The  chief  of  every  police
    15  department,  each county sheriff, the superintendent of state police and
    16  the person in charge of every agency that employs  a  peace  officer  in
    17  this state shall report to the division, in a form and manner as defined
    18  in regulations by the division, all information necessary to compile and
    19  maintain the database established pursuant to this section.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    22  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    23  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    24  completed on or before such effective date.

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