Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5527
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requests for
employee personnel records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 87 of the public officers law, as
2 added by chapter 302 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. [All agencies subject to the requirements of this article shall
4 develop a policy regarding providing a notification to public employees
5 in the event that the agency is responding to a request for such employ-
6 ee's disciplinary records] (a) Every agency or public employer shall
7 provide written notification to an employee that a request for informa-
8 tion pursuant to the provisions of this article seeking such employee's
9 personnel records has been approved. The notification shall list any
10 documents requested, provided, or copied for dissemination or public
11 inspection.
12 (b) Upon official notification from the employer that a request for
13 information pursuant to the provisions of this article seeking such
14 employee's personnel records has been approved, such employee shall be
15 given the ability to inspect their personnel file or any other document
16 referencing the employee as part of the information request. This
17 section shall not be a restriction to an employee's right to inspect
18 their personnel file pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, or
19 other law.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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