Bill Text: NY S04895 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the municipal police training council to establish policies and procedures for police officers, relating to the investigation of and intervention into sex offenses; provides for recommendations to the governor relating to rules and regulations therefor; directs the office of court administration to provide training to judges and justices with respect to crimes involving sexual assault.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-22 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2349A [S04895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04895-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4895
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 28, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SALAND -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the  munici-
         pal  police  training council to establish policies and procedures for
         the investigation of sex offenses and intervention by police  officers
         into  the commission of such offenses; and to amend the judiciary law,
         in relation to providing training for judges and  justices  on  crimes
         involving sexual assault
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. THE COUNCIL SHALL, IN ADDITION:
    4    (A) DEVELOP, MAINTAIN  AND  DISSEMINATE,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  RAPE
    5  CRISIS  CENTERS  EXPERIENCED IN ASSISTING VICTIMS IN THIS STATE, WRITTEN
    6  POLICIES AND PROCEDURES CONSISTENT WITH  APPLICABLE  PROVISIONS  OF  THE
    7  FAMILY COURT ACT, DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW AND THE
    8  PENAL  LAW,  REGARDING  THE INVESTIGATION OF AND INTERVENTION BY NEW AND
    9  VETERAN POLICE OFFICERS IN CRIMES INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT.  SUCH  POLI-
   10  CIES  AND PROCEDURES SHALL MAKE PROVISIONS FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF
   11  NEW AND VETERAN POLICE OFFICERS IN THE INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT  OF
   12  CRIMES  INVOLVING  SEXUAL  ASSAULT  UNDER  STATE  LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT
   13  LIMITED TO:
   14    (1) TECHNIQUES FOR INTERVIEWING SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS,
   15    (2) FAIR TREATMENT STANDARDS FOR CRIME  VICTIMS  PURSUANT  TO  ARTICLE
   16  TWENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER,
   17    (3) EVIDENCE GATHERING AND EVIDENCE PRESERVATION, AND
   18    (4)  DISSEMINATION  OF  INFORMATION  CONCERNING  AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL
   19  SERVICES FOR THE VICTIMS OF SUCH CRIMES; AND
   20    (B) RECOMMEND TO THE GOVERNOR, RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH  RESPECT  TO
   21  ESTABLISHMENT  AND  IMPLEMENTATION  ON  AN  ONGOING  BASIS OF A TRAINING
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06269-03-1
       S. 4895                             2
    1  PROGRAM FOR ALL CURRENT AND NEW POLICE OFFICERS REGARDING  THE  POLICIES
    2  AND  PROCEDURES  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SUBDIVISION, ALONG WITH
    3  RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PERIODIC RETRAINING OF POLICE OFFICERS.
    4    S  2.  The  judiciary  law is amended by adding a new section 219-c to
    5  read as follows:
    6    S 219-C. CRIMES  INVOLVING  SEXUAL  ASSAULT;  JUDICIAL  TRAINING.  THE
    7  OFFICE  OF  COURT  ADMINISTRATION  SHALL PROVIDE TRAINING FOR JUDGES AND
    8  JUSTICES WITH RESPECT TO CRIMES INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT.
    9    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   10  have become a law.