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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1405
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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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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