Enacts the "public internet access safety act"; authorizes the division of criminal justice services to direct public library systems to place certain warnings of internet dangers for children on such library system's internet homepage, including but not limited to, warnings of sexual predators, safe blogging, "dealing with cyber bullies" and social networking safety.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "public
internet access safety act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "public internet access safety act".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 843-a to
4 read as follows:
5 § 843-a. Public library homepage on the internet; warning. Notwith-
6 standing any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary,
7 the division shall establish and maintain an internet website providing
8 information to minors on the potential dangers to minors using the
9 internet concerning, but not limited to, sexual predators, safe blog-
10 ging, on-line bullying, social networking safety, and such other inter-
11 net safety information as the division deems appropriate, and every
12 public library system shall make the homepage of this website the home-
13 page of its website providing internet access to minors in a public
14 library.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00412-01-5
