STATE OF NEW YORK
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5699
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and
Families
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for a formal
process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance of an
AMBER alert
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (vi) and (vii) of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
2 sion 14 of section 837-f of the executive law, as amended by chapter 381
3 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows:
4 (vi) police agencies not connected with the basic police communication
5 system in use in such jurisdiction may transmit such information to the
6 nearest or most convenient electronic entry point, from which point it
7 may be promptly dispatched, in conformity with the orders, rules or
8 regulations governing the system; [and]
9 (vii) a formal process is established by which a parent or legal guar-
10 dian may request that a missing child alert be issued. Such request
11 shall be made to the division of state police for review; and
12 (viii) no dispatch or transmission of a report concerning a missing
13 child shall be required by such plan, except as provided in subparagraph
14 (vii) of this paragraph, if the investigating police department advises,
15 in its discretion, that the release of such information may jeopardize
16 the investigation or the safety of the child, or requests forbearance
17 for any reason.
18 § 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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