Directs the office of information technology services to establish a gun violence alert system to be added to the emergency alert notification system, known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert to provide real-time warnings and emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citizens of New York State.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1481
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
AN ACT in relation to directing the office of information technology
services to add a gun violence alert to the New York alert system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The office of information technology services shall estab-
2 lish a gun violence alert to be added to the emergency alert notifica-
3 tion system, also known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert. Such gun violence
4 alert shall be added to the list of notifications available via phone
5 call, email, text message, fax or other method to provide real-time
6 warnings and emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citi-
7 zens of New York State. Such gun violence alerts shall notify those
8 NY-Alert subscribers within a one-mile radius of such gun violence, as
9 determined by the law enforcement agency or division reporting such gun
10 violence to the emergency alert notification system, for the protection
11 and safety of persons located within such area.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05371-01-3
