Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8509--A
IN SENATE
February 7, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requests for
employee personnel records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 87 of the public officers law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. (a) Every agency or public employer shall provide written notifica-
4 tion to an employee that a request for information pursuant to the
5 provisions of this article seeking such employee's personnel records has
6 been approved. The notification shall list any documents requested,
7 provided, or copied for dissemination or public inspection.
8 (b) Upon official notification from the employer that a request for
9 information pursuant to the provisions of this article seeking such
10 employee's personnel records has been approved, such employee shall be
11 given the ability to inspect their personnel file or any other document
12 referencing the employee as part of the information request. This
13 section shall not be a restriction to an employee's right to inspect
14 their personnel file pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, or
15 other law.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14454-03-4
