| BILL NO | S05565 |
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| SAME AS | SAME AS A08450
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| SPONSOR | YOUNG |
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| COSPNSR | MAZIARZ, DEFRANCISCO, FARLEY, GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, LARKIN, LIBOUS, NOZZOLIO, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD |
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| Amd SS501, 501-c, 504, 507-a, 510-c & 837, add SS501-i & 510, Exec L; amd S166, Fam Ct Act; amd SS720.35 &
725.15, CP L; amd S212, Judy L |
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| Enacts "Renee's Law"; directs the commissioner of children and family services to provide training to all employees of programs and facilities in which youth are placed or committed; grants access to office of children and family service records, juvenile delinquency records, youthful offender records and juvenile offender records of youth placed or committed to a facility, to staff members and employees who are exposed to such youth and to foster parents who take custody of such person after his or her release; grants courts and attorneys access to such records in any proceeding for the commission of a crime while a youth is in the custody of the office of children and family services; prohibits the release, discharge or transfer of any youth who has engaged in criminal activity while in custody; requires the reporting to law enforcement authorities of criminal activity by a youth in the custody of the office of children and family services; requires a police officer to escort an employee sent to find a youth who is absent without authorization. |