Bill Text: NY A11002 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of doxing a police officer or a peace officer when a person knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer, publicly available with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; or with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal information is likely to be used to threaten, intimidate, or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to codes [A11002 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11002-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11002

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stern) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          doxing a police officer or a peace officer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.33 Doxing a police officer or a peace officer.
     4    A  person is guilty of doxing a police officer or a peace officer when
     5  he or she knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police
     6  officer or peace officer, or a member of the immediate  family  of  such
     7  officer, publicly available:
     8    1.  With  the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission
     9  of a crime of violence against the police officer or peace officer, or a
    10  member of the immediate family of such officer; or
    11    2. With the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal informa-
    12  tion is likely to be used to threaten,  intimidate,  or  facilitate  the
    13  commission  of  a  crime of violence against the police officer or peace
    14  officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer.
    15    Under this section, police officer and peace officer  are  as  defined
    16  under section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    17    Doxing of a police officer or a peace officer shall be a class D felo-
    18  ny.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17070-01-0