| BILL NO | S00555A |
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| SAME AS | SAME AS A05612-A
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| SPONSOR | YOUNG |
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| COSPNSR | DEFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, LARKIN, MARCHIONE, ORTT, RANZENHOFER |
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| Amd §§501, 501-c, 504, 507-a & 837, add §501-i, Art 19-G Title 2 §510, Exec L; amd §166, Fam Ct Act; amd
§§720.35 & 725.15, CP L; amd §212, Judy L |
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| Enacts "Renee's Law"; directs the commissioner of children and family services to provide training to all employees of programs and facilities in which youths are placed or committed; grants access to office of children and family services' records, juvenile delinquency records, youthful offender records and juvenile offender records of youths placed or committed to a facility, to staff members and employees who are exposed to such youths and to foster parents who take custody of such person after his or her release; grants courts and attorneys access to such records in any proceeding for the commission of a crime while a youth is in the custody of the office of children and family services; prohibits the release, discharge or transfer of any youth who has engaged in criminal activity while in custody; requires the reporting to law enforcement authorities of criminal activity by a youth in the custody of the office of children and family services; requires a police officer to escort an employee sent to find a youth who is absent without authorization. |
