Requires the secretary of state to develop and mandate training of police department personnel and state police officers on the protocols of the address confidentiality program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8263--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO, SHIMSKY, REYES, K. BROWN, GALLAHAN,
KELLES, BURROUGHS, RAMOS, TAYLOR, BROOK-KRASNY, LEVENBERG, CRUZ --
read once 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 -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to training of state
police and local police departments on the address confidentiality
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. (a) The council, in coordination with the office of victim
4 services, the office for the prevention of domestic violence and the
5 secretary of state, shall promulgate policies and procedures with regard
6 to training on the address confidentiality program pursuant to section
7 one hundred eight of this chapter which shall include, but not limited
8 to:
9 (i) training on the purpose and benefits of the address confidentiali-
10 ty program;
11 (ii) procedures for identifying and assisting victims who may be
12 eligible for such program;
13 (iii) guidelines for maintaining confidentiality and handling sensi-
14 tive information related to program participants; and
15 (iv) protocols for coordinating with the office of victim services and
16 other agencies to provide support services to program participants.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) Such training shall be required for all police officers and shall
2 be incorporated into existing training programs including, but not
3 limited to, the basic course for police officers and in-service
4 programs. The training for in-service programs on the address confiden-
5 tiality program shall be conducted once every three years.
6 (c) The division of criminal justice services shall provide confirma-
7 tion of compliance with such training requirement for all police depart-
8 ments to the secretary of state pursuant to section one hundred eight of
9 this chapter.
10 § 2. Subdivision 8 of section 108 of the executive law, as added by
11 chapter 502 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
12 8. Report to the legislature. The secretary shall submit to the legis-
13 lature, no later than February first of each year, a report that
14 includes for each county, the total number of applications received, the
15 total number of persons participating in the program established by this
16 section during the previous calendar year and the total number of pieces
17 of mail forwarded to program participants during the previous calendar
18 year. The report shall include confirmation from the division of crimi-
19 nal justice services of the date that each county received the training
20 materials and when the training was completed by each police department;
21 and confirmation from the superintendent of state police that training
22 was completed by all state police officers.
23 § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 214-j to
24 read as follows:
25 § 214-j. Address confidentiality program training. (a) The superinten-
26 dent, in coordination with the office of victim services, the office for
27 the prevention of domestic violence and the secretary of state, shall
28 promulgate policies and procedures with regard to training on the
29 address confidentiality program pursuant to section one hundred eight of
30 this chapter which shall include, but not be limited to:
31 (i) training on the purpose and benefits of the address confidentiali-
32 ty program;
33 (ii) procedures for identifying and assisting victims who may be
34 eligible for such program;
35 (iii) guidelines for maintaining confidentiality and handling sensi-
36 tive information related to program participants; and
37 (iv) protocols for coordinating with the office of victim services and
38 other agencies to provide support services to program participants.
39 (b) Such training shall be required for all state police officers and
40 shall be incorporated into existing training programs. Such training
41 shall be conducted once every three years.
42 (c) The superintendent shall provide confirmation of compliance with
43 such training requirement for all new and veteran state police officers
44 to the secretary of state pursuant to section one hundred eight of this
45 chapter.
46 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
47 it shall have become a law.
