Bill Text: NY A03412 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services and its authorized agencies to provide surveillance cameras.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to children and families [A03412 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03412-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3412 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the office of children and family services and authorized agencies of the office of children and family services to provide surveillance cameras The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 380-a to read as follows: 3 § 380-a. Surveillance cameras. 1. (a) Surveillance cameras with sound 4 capability shall be installed in all public common areas including, but 5 not limited to, all common living areas, dining areas, hallways, class- 6 rooms and time-out rooms in all group homes, residential and day schools 7 and programs licensed, certified, funded or operated by the office of 8 children and family services and any authorized agency of the office of 9 children and family services. 10 (b) All public common areas including, but not limited to, all common 11 living areas, dining areas, hallways, classrooms and time-out rooms of a 12 facility providing residential care to youth or children shall be 13 equipped with surveillance cameras with sound capability. 14 2. In all residential facilities statewide, for children certified, 15 licensed, funded or operated by the office of children and family 16 services, surveillance cameras may be placed in a child's, age thirteen 17 or younger, room at the request of and with the consent of the child's 18 parent or guardian and only if the child is in a single occupancy 19 bedroom. 20 3. Any provider that fails to implement the provisions of this section 21 shall be subjected to a fine of one thousand dollars per day of noncom- 22 pliances. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 24 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05196-01-9