Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing; provides such training shall be created in consultation with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 requiring police offi-
cer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disabili-
ty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 840 of the executive law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
3 (n) Establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis, of a train-
4 ing program for all current and new police officers and peace officers
5 regarding how to interact with individuals with a disability as defined
6 in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of this
7 chapter, with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve
8 interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing.
9 The content of such training program shall be created in consultation
10 with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs
11 as established under article twenty of this chapter.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
13 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
14 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation by the
15 municipal police training council necessary for the implementation of
16 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
17 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03513-01-5
