Provides that a municipality may disclose any portion of a call made to its E911 system in any emergency situation to protect public safety or upon the consent of persons who made such calls.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4421
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the availability of calls
made to a municipality's E911 system
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 308 of the county law, as amended
2 by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3 4. Records, in whatever form they may be kept, of calls made to a
4 municipality's E911 system [shall] need not be made available to or
5 obtained by any entity or person, other than that municipality's public
6 safety agency, another government agency or body, or a private entity or
7 a person providing medical, ambulance or other emergency services, and
8 shall not be utilized for any commercial purpose other than the
9 provision of emergency services; provided, however, that a municipality
10 may disclose any portion of such records in any emergency situation to
11 protect public safety or upon the consent of persons who made such
12 calls.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10565-01-1
