Requires an agency responding to a request for public employee disciplinary records to develop a policy to notify the public employee whose personal information is subject to the request.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5500--B
Cal. No. 332
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investi-
gations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the disclosure
of public employee disciplinary records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 87 of the public officers law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 6 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.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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