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
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