Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2620--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, CLARK, RAGA, SIMON, KELLES, DINOWITZ,
ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, ZACCARO, R. CARROLL, LAVINE, GLICK, GONZALEZ-RO-
JAS, BRONSON, CUNNINGHAM, MEEKS, ALVAREZ, PAULIN, DE LOS SANTOS,
BORES, SIMONE, GALLAGHER, WALKER, GIBBS, LUNSFORD, TAPIA, WOERNER,
BICHOTTE HERMELYN, CRUZ, SHRESTHA, SEAWRIGHT, DAVILA, HYNDMAN, STECK,
ZINERMAN, O'PHARROW, SCHIAVONI, LEVENBERG, P. CARROLL, TAYLOR,
BURDICK, WEPRIN, OTIS, FORREST, MAMDANI, VANEL, LUPARDO, REYES, SEPTI-
MO, HOOKS, MITAYNES, BURROUGHS, SOLAGES, DAIS, SHIMSKY, ANDERSON, KIM,
VALDEZ, McMAHON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported and
referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the family court act and the criminal procedure law, in
relation to the custodial interrogation of juveniles by law enforce-
ment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 305.2 of the family court act, as
2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. If an officer takes such child into custody or if a child is deliv-
4 ered to [him] an officer under section 305.1, [he] the officer shall
5 immediately, before transporting the child to the police station house,
6 make every reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legal-
7 ly responsible for the child's care, or if such legally responsible
8 person is unavailable the person with whom the child resides, that the
9 child has been taken into custody.
10 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 305.2 of the family
11 court act, as added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
12 read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) when the officer reasonably believes such parent or other person
2 legally responsible for the child's care will appear, take the child to
3 the child's home, the station house, or another location agreed upon
4 with the parent or person legally responsible, and release the child to
5 the custody of [his parents or other person legally responsible for his
6 care] such person upon the issuance in accordance with section 307.1 of
7 a family court appearance ticket to the child and the person to whose
8 custody the child is released; or
9 § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 305.2 of the family
10 court act, as amended by section 63 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the
11 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
12 (b) when the officer does not reasonably believe the parent or other
13 person legally responsible for the child's care will appear for the
14 child, forthwith and with all reasonable speed take the child directly,
15 and without [his] the child first being taken to the police station
16 house, to the family court located in the county in which the act occa-
17 sioning the taking into custody allegedly was committed, or, when the
18 family court is not in session, to the most accessible magistrate, if
19 any, designated by the appellate division of the supreme court in the
20 applicable department to conduct a hearing under section 307.4 [of this
21 part, unless the officer determines that it is necessary to question the
22 child, in which case he or she may take the child to a facility desig-
23 nated by the chief administrator of the courts as a suitable place for
24 the questioning of children or, upon the consent of a parent or other
25 person legally responsible for the care of the child, to the child's
26 residence and there question him or her for a reasonable period of
27 time]; or
28 § 4. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 305.2 of the family
29 court act, as amended by section 3 of part G of chapter 58 of the laws
30 of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
31 (c) when the officer does not release the child pursuant to paragraph
32 (a) of this subdivision, or take the child to family court or to a
33 magistrate pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, take the child
34 to a place certified by the office of children and family services as a
35 juvenile detention facility for the reception of children; or
36 § 5. Subdivision 5 of section 305.2 of the family court act, as
37 amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
38 follows:
39 5. If such child has allegedly committed a designated felony act as
40 defined in subdivision eight of section 301.2, and the family court in
41 the county is in session, the officer shall forthwith take the child
42 directly to such family court[, unless the officer takes the child to a
43 facility for questioning in accordance with paragraph (b) of subdivision
44 four. If such child has not allegedly committed a designated felony act
45 and such family court is in session, the officer shall either forthwith
46 take the child directly to such family court, unless the officer takes
47 the child to a facility for questioning in accordance with paragraph (b)
48 of subdivision four or release the child in accordance with paragraph
49 (a) of subdivision four] or, when the family court is not in session, to
50 the most accessible magistrate, if any, designated by the appellate
51 division of the supreme court in the applicable department to conduct a
52 hearing under section 307.4.
53 § 6. Subdivision 5-a of section 305.2 of the family court act, as
54 added by chapter 299 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
55 5-a. Where a child is subject to interrogation at a facility desig-
56 nated by the chief administrator of the courts as a suitable place for
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1 the questioning of juveniles pursuant to subdivision [four] seven of
2 this section, the entire interrogation, including the giving of any
3 required notice to the child as to [his or her] their rights and the
4 child's waiver of any rights, shall be video recorded in a manner
5 consistent with standards established by rule of the division of crimi-
6 nal justice services pursuant to paragraph (e) of subdivision three of
7 section 60.45 of the criminal procedure law. The interrogation shall be
8 recorded in a manner such that the persons in the recording are iden-
9 tifiable and the speech is intelligible. A copy of the recording shall
10 be subject to discovery pursuant to section 331.2 of this article.
11 § 7. Subdivision 6 of section 305.2 of the family court act, as added
12 by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
13 6. [In all other cases] If such child has not allegedly committed a
14 designated felony act, and in the absence of special circumstances, the
15 officer shall release the child in accordance with paragraph (a) of
16 subdivision four.
17 § 8. Subdivisions 7 and 8 of section 305.2 of the family court act,
18 subdivision 7 as amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 1983 and subdivi-
19 sion 8 as amended by chapter 299 of the laws of 2020, are amended and a
20 new subdivision 10 is added to read as follows:
21 7. If the officer determines that questioning of the child is neces-
22 sary prior to taking action authorized by subdivision four or five, the
23 officer may take the child to a facility designated by the chief admin-
24 istrator of the courts as a suitable place for the questioning of chil-
25 dren or, upon the consent of a parent or other person legally responsi-
26 ble for the care of the child, to the child's residence and there,
27 subject to the requirements of subdivision eight, question the child for
28 a reasonable period of time.
29 8. A child shall not be questioned pursuant to this section unless
30 [he] or until:
31 (a) the child and a person required to be notified pursuant to subdi-
32 vision three if present, have been advised:
33 [(a)] (i) of the child's right to remain silent;
34 [(b)] (ii) that the statements made by the child may be used in a
35 court of law;
36 [(c)] (iii) of the child's right to have an attorney present at such
37 questioning; and
38 [(d)] (iv) of the child's right to have an attorney provided for [him]
39 them without charge if [he is] they are indigent; and
40 (b) the child has consulted with legal counsel in person, by tele-
41 phone, or by video conference. This consultation may not be waived.
42 [8.] 9. In determining the suitability of questioning and determining
43 the reasonable period of time for questioning such a child, the child's
44 age, the presence or absence of [his or her] the child's parents or
45 other persons legally responsible for [his or her] the child's care,
46 notification pursuant to subdivision three and, where the child has been
47 interrogated at a facility designated by the chief administrator of the
48 courts as a suitable place for the questioning of juveniles, whether the
49 interrogation was in compliance with the video-recording and disclosure
50 requirements of subdivision five-a of this section shall be included
51 among relevant considerations.
52 10. In addition to statements that must be suppressed as involuntarily
53 made within the definition in subdivision two of section 344.2, a state-
54 ment shall be suppressed: when the child has not consulted with legal
55 counsel as required by paragraph (b) of subdivision eight; or when a
56 person notified pursuant to subdivision three, if present, has not been
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1 advised of and voluntarily waived the rights delineated in paragraph (a)
2 of subdivision eight.
3 § 9. Section 724 of the family court act, the section heading and
4 subdivisions (b) and (c) as amended by chapter 843 of the laws of 1980,
5 subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, para-
6 graphs (i) and (ii) as amended and paragraph (iv) of subdivision (b) as
7 added by section 4 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005, para-
8 graph (iii) of subdivision (b) as amended by section 7 of part M of
9 chapter 56 of the laws of 2017, and subdivision (d) as added by chapter
10 809 of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as follows:
11 § 724. Duties of police officer or peace officer after taking into
12 custody or on delivery by private person. (a) If a peace officer or a
13 police officer takes into custody or if a person is delivered to [him]
14 the officer under section seven hundred twenty-three, the officer shall
15 immediately, before transporting the child to any other location, make
16 every reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally
17 responsible for [his] the person's care, or the person with whom [he]
18 the person is domiciled, that [he] the person has been taken into custo-
19 dy.
20 (b) After making every reasonable effort to give notice under [para-
21 graph] subdivision (a) of this section, the officer shall
22 (i) when the officer reasonably believes such parent or other person
23 legally responsible for the child's care will appear, take the child to
24 the child's home, the police station house, or another location agreed
25 upon with the parent or person legally responsible, and release the
26 youth to the custody of [his or her parent or other] such person [legal-
27 ly responsible for his or her care] upon the written promise, without
28 security, of the person to whose custody the youth is released that [he
29 or she] such person will produce the youth before the lead agency desig-
30 nated pursuant to section seven hundred thirty-five of this article in
31 that county at a time and place specified in writing; or
32 (ii) when the officer does not reasonably believe such parent or other
33 person legally responsible for the child's care will appear for the
34 child, forthwith and with all reasonable speed take the youth directly,
35 and without first being taken to the police station house, to the desig-
36 nated lead agency located in the county in which the act occasioning the
37 taking into custody allegedly was done[, unless the officer determines
38 that it is necessary to question the youth, in which case he or she may
39 take the youth to a facility designated by the chief administrator of
40 the courts as a suitable place for the questioning of youth or, upon the
41 consent of a parent or other person legally responsible for the care of
42 the youth, to the youth's residence and there question him or her for a
43 reasonable period of time]; or
44 (iii) take a youth in need of crisis intervention or respite services
45 to a runaway and homeless youth crisis services program or other
46 approved respite or crisis program; or
47 (iv) take the youth directly to the family court located in the county
48 in which the act occasioning the taking into custody was allegedly done,
49 provided that the officer affirms on the record that [he or she] the
50 officer attempted to exercise the options identified in paragraphs (i),
51 (ii) and (iii) of this subdivision, was unable to exercise these
52 options, and the reasons therefor.
53 (c) In the absence of special circumstances, the officer shall release
54 the child in accord with paragraph [(b)] (i) of subdivision (b) of this
55 section.
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1 (d) If the officer determines that questioning of the child is neces-
2 sary prior to taking action authorized by subdivision (b) of this
3 section, the officer may take the child to a facility designated by the
4 chief administrator of the courts as a suitable place for the question-
5 ing of children or, upon the consent of a parent or other person legally
6 responsible for the care of the child, to the child's residence and
7 there, subject to the requirements of subdivision (e) of this section,
8 question the child for a reasonable period of time.
9 (e) In determining the suitability of questioning and determining what
10 is a "reasonable period of time" for questioning a child, the child's
11 age [and], the presence or absence of [his] the child's parents or other
12 person legally responsible for [his] the child's care and notification
13 pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall be included among the
14 relevant considerations.
15 (f) No statement made to a peace officer or a police officer prior to
16 the commencement of a fact-finding hearing may be admitted into evidence
17 at a fact-finding hearing.
18 § 10. Subdivision 6 of section 140.20 of the criminal procedure law,
19 as amended by section 20 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,
20 is amended to read as follows:
21 6. (a) Upon arresting a juvenile offender or a person sixteen or
22 [commencing October first, two thousand nineteen,] seventeen years of
23 age without a warrant, the police officer shall immediately, before
24 transporting the child to the police station house, make every reason-
25 able effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for
26 [his or her] the child's care or the person with whom [he or she] the
27 child is domiciled, that such juvenile offender or [person] sixteen or
28 seventeen year old has been arrested, and the location of the facility
29 where [he or she is being] the child will be detained.
30 (b) If the officer determines that it is necessary to question a juve-
31 nile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, the offi-
32 cer must take [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen
33 year old to a facility designated by the chief administrator of the
34 courts as a suitable place for the questioning of children or, upon the
35 consent of a parent or other person legally responsible for the care of
36 the juvenile or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, to [his or
37 her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's residence
38 and there, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of this subdivi-
39 sion, question [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
40 teen year old for a reasonable period of time.
41 (c) A juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old
42 shall not be questioned pursuant to this section unless [he or she] or
43 until:
44 (i) the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old and a
45 person required to be notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
46 vision, if present, have been advised:
47 [(a)] (A) of the juvenile offender's or [such person's] sixteen or
48 seventeen year old's right to remain silent;
49 [(b)] (B) that the statements made by [him or her] the juvenile offen-
50 der or sixteen or seventeen year old may be used in a court of law;
51 [(c)] (C) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
52 teen year old's right to have an attorney present at such questioning;
53 and
54 [(d)] (D) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
55 teen year old's right to have an attorney provided for [him or her] them
56 without charge if [he or she is] they are unable to afford counsel[.];
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1 (ii) the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old has
2 consulted with an attorney in person, by telephone, or by video confer-
3 ence. This consultation may not be waived.
4 (d) In determining the suitability of questioning and determining the
5 reasonable period of time for questioning such a juvenile offender or
6 [person] sixteen or seventeen year old, [his or her] the juvenile offen-
7 der or sixteen or seventeen year old's age, the presence or absence of
8 [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
9 parents or other persons legally responsible for [his or her] the juve-
10 nile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's care and notification
11 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be included among
12 relevant considerations.
13 (e) In addition to statements that must be suppressed as involuntarily
14 made within the definition in subdivision two of section 60.45 of this
15 chapter, a statement shall be suppressed: when the child has not
16 consulted with an attorney as required by paragraph (c) of this subdivi-
17 sion; or when a person notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
18 vision, if present, has not been advised of and voluntarily waived the
19 rights delineated in paragraph (c) of this subdivision.
20 § 11. Subdivision 5 of section 140.27 of the criminal procedure law,
21 as amended by section 23 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,
22 is amended to read as follows:
23 5. (a) Upon arresting a juvenile offender or a person sixteen or
24 [commencing October first, two thousand nineteen,] seventeen years of
25 age without a warrant, the peace officer shall immediately, before
26 transporting the child to the police station house, make every reason-
27 able effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for
28 [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
29 care or the person with whom [he or she] the juvenile offender or
30 sixteen or seventeen year old is domiciled, that such juvenile offender
31 or [person] sixteen or seventeen year old has been arrested, and the
32 location of the facility where [he or she is being] the juvenile offen-
33 der or sixteen or seventeen year old will be detained.
34 (b) If the officer determines that it is necessary to question a juve-
35 nile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, the offi-
36 cer must take [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen
37 year old to a facility designated by the chief administrator of the
38 courts as a suitable place for the questioning of children or, upon the
39 consent of a parent or other person legally responsible for the care of
40 a juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, to
41 [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
42 residence and there, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of
43 this subdivision, question [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen
44 or seventeen year old for a reasonable period of time.
45 (c) A juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old
46 shall not be questioned pursuant to this section unless or until:
47 (i) the juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year
48 old and a person required to be notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of
49 this subdivision, if present, have been advised:
50 [(a)] (A) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
51 teen year old's right to remain silent;
52 [(b)] (B) that the statements made by the juvenile offender or [such
53 person] sixteen or seventeen year old may be used in a court of law;
54 [(c)] (C) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
55 teen year old's right to have an attorney present at such questioning;
56 and
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1 [(d)] (D) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
2 teen year old's right to have an attorney provided for [him or her] the
3 juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old without charge if [he
4 or she] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old is
5 unable to afford counsel[.]; and
6 (ii) the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old has
7 consulted with an attorney in person, by telephone or by video confer-
8 ence. This consultation may not be waived.
9 (d) In determining the suitability of questioning and determining the
10 reasonable period of time for questioning such a juvenile offender or
11 [such person his or her] sixteen or seventeen year old, the juvenile
12 offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's age, the presence or absence
13 of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
14 parents or other persons legally responsible for [his or her] the juve-
15 nile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's care and notification
16 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be included among
17 relevant considerations.
18 (e) In addition to statements that must be suppressed as involuntarily
19 made within the definition in subdivision two of section 60.45 of this
20 chapter, a statement shall be suppressed: when the child has not
21 consulted with an attorney as required by paragraph (c) of this subdivi-
22 sion; or when a person notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
23 vision, if present, has not been advised of and voluntarily waived the
24 rights delineated in paragraph (c) of this subdivision.
25 § 12. Subdivision 5 of section 140.40 of the criminal procedure law,
26 as amended by section 24 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,
27 is amended to read as follows:
28 5. (a) If a police officer takes an arrested juvenile offender or a
29 person sixteen or [commencing October first, two thousand nineteen,]
30 seventeen years of age into custody, the police officer shall immediate-
31 ly, before transporting the child to the police station house, make
32 every reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally
33 responsible for [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
34 teen year old's care or the person with whom [he or she] the juvenile
35 offender or sixteen or seventeen year old is domiciled, that such juve-
36 nile offender or [person] sixteen or seventeen year old has been
37 arrested, and the location of the facility where [he or she is being]
38 the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old will be detained.
39 (b) If the officer determines that it is necessary to question a juve-
40 nile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old the officer
41 must take [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen
42 year old to a facility designated by the chief administrator of the
43 courts as a suitable place for the questioning of children or, upon the
44 consent of a parent or other person legally responsible for the care of
45 the juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, to
46 [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
47 residence and there, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of
48 this subdivision, question [him or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen
49 or seventeen year old for a reasonable period of time.
50 (c) A juvenile offender or [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old
51 shall not be questioned pursuant to this section unless [he or she] or
52 until:
53 (i) the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old and a
54 person required to be notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
55 vision, if present, have been advised:
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1 [(a)] (A) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
2 teen year old's right to remain silent;
3 [(b)] (B) that the statements made by the juvenile offender or [such
4 person] sixteen or seventeen year old may be used in a court of law;
5 [(c)] (C) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
6 teen year old's right to have an attorney present at such questioning;
7 and
8 [(d)] (D) of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seven-
9 teen year old's right to have an attorney provided for [him or her] them
10 without charge if [he or she is] they are unable to afford counsel[.];
11 and
12 (ii) the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old has
13 consulted with an attorney in person, by telephone, or by video confer-
14 ence. This consultation may not be waived.
15 (d) In determining the suitability of questioning and determining the
16 reasonable period of time for questioning such a juvenile offender or
17 [such person] sixteen or seventeen year old, [his or her] the juvenile
18 offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's age, the presence or absence
19 of [his or her] the juvenile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's
20 parents or other persons legally responsible for [his or her] the juve-
21 nile offender or sixteen or seventeen year old's care and notification
22 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be included among
23 relevant considerations.
24 (e) In addition to statements that must be suppressed as involuntarily
25 made within the definition in subdivision two of section 60.45 of this
26 chapter, a statement shall be suppressed: when the child has not
27 consulted with an attorney as required by paragraph (c) of this subdivi-
28 sion; or when a person notified pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi-
29 vision, if present, has not been advised of and voluntarily waived the
30 rights delineated in paragraph (c) of this subdivision.
31 § 13. This act shall take effect April 1, 2026.
