STATE OF NEW YORK
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8205
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the access of
certain information by the New York city department of investigation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 372 of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) All such records relating to such children shall be open to
4 inspection by the New York city department of investigation for purposes
5 of an investigation within the legal authority of the department of
6 investigation.
7 § 2. Subparagraph (m) of paragraph (A) of subdivision 4 of section 422
8 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 12 of the laws of
9 1996, is amended to read as follows:
10 (m) the New York city department of investigation provided however,
11 that no information identifying the subjects of the report or other
12 persons named in the report shall be made available to the department of
13 investigation unless such information is essential to an investigation
14 within the legal authority of the department of investigation [and the
15 state department of social services gives prior approval];
16 § 3. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 422
17 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 256 of the laws of
18 2014, is amended and a new subparagraph (vi) is added to read as
19 follows:
20 (v) to a district attorney, an assistant district attorney, an inves-
21 tigator employed in the office of a district attorney, or to a sworn
22 officer of the division of state police, of a city, county, town or
23 village police department or of a county sheriff's office when such
24 official verifies that the report is necessary to conduct an active
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 investigation or prosecution of a violation of subdivision four of
2 section 240.50 of the penal law[.]; and
3 (vi) to the New York city department of investigation for the purpose
4 of investigating an allegation of an improperly conducted investigation
5 by the local child protective service or when an inspector general of
6 the New York city department of investigation determines that the report
7 is necessary to conduct an active investigation of a violation of subdi-
8 vision four of section 240.50 of the penal law.
9 § 4. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section 496 of the social
10 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws
11 of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
12 (m) the New York city department of investigation; provided, however,
13 that no information identifying the subjects of the report or other
14 persons named in the report shall be made available to the department of
15 investigation unless such information is essential to an investigation
16 within the legal authority of the department of investigation [and the
17 justice center or the applicable state oversight agency gives prior
18 approval];
19 § 5. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
