Protects the right of privacy of victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the transmission of the HIV virus, who are under the age of 18; provides that the gender and address of victims under the age of eighteen be kept confidential.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2603
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, KOLB, OAKS --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting the
right of privacy of victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the
transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus, under the age of
eighteen, by prohibiting the disclosure of certain characteristics
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 50-b of the civil rights law, as
2 amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The identity of any victim of a sex offense, as defined in article
5 one hundred thirty or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law,
6 or of an offense involving the alleged transmission of the human immuno-
7 deficiency virus, shall be confidential. Any characteristic of a person
8 under the age of eighteen including, but not limited to, age or gender
9 and such person's address shall be confidential. Additionally, if a
10 victim is under the age of eighteen and is related to the accused, the
11 relation shall be confidential. No report, paper, picture, photograph,
12 court file or other documents, in the custody or possession of any
13 public officer or employee, which identifies such a victim shall be made
14 available for public inspection. No such public officer or employee
15 shall disclose any portion of any police report, court file, or other
16 document, which tends to identify such a victim except as provided in
17 subdivision two of this section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04489-01-7
