Relates to permitting social services officials in an adult protective service investigation access to certain confidential records under the child abuse and maltreatment registry when such official has reasonable cause to believe that such person may be in need of protective services due to the actions of an individual or individuals that had access to such adult when he or she was a child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5470
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 25, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to permitting
social services officials investigating whether an adult is in need of
protective services to have access to certain confidential reports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (y) and (z) of paragraph (A) of subdivision 4
2 of section 422 of the social services law, subparagraph (y) as amended
3 and subparagraph (z) as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 327 of
4 the laws of 2007, are amended and a new subparagraph (aa) is added to
5 read as follows:
6 (y) members of a citizen review panel as established pursuant to
7 section three hundred seventy-one-b of this article; provided, however,
8 members of a citizen review panel shall not disclose to any person or
9 government official any identifying information which the panel has been
10 provided and shall not make public other information unless otherwise
11 authorized by statute; [and]
12 (z) an entity with appropriate legal authority in another state to
13 license, certify or otherwise approve prospective foster and adoptive
14 parents where disclosure of information regarding the prospective foster
15 or adoptive parents and other persons over the age of eighteen residing
16 in the home of such prospective parents is required by paragraph twenty
17 of subdivision (a) of section six hundred seventy-one of title forty-two
18 of the United States code[.]; and
19 (aa) a social services official who is investigating whether an adult
20 is in need of protective services in accordance with the provisions of
21 section four hundred seventy-three of this chapter, when such official
22 has reasonable cause to believe such adult may be in need of protective
23 services due to the conduct of an individual or individuals who had
24 access to such adult when such adult was a child and that such reports
25 and information are needed to further the present investigation.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11521-01-1
