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NY A05220
Bill
Status
8/13/2010
Primary Sponsor
Peter Abbate
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AI Summary
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Establishes a Missing Vulnerable Adults Clearinghouse within the Division to coordinate response to missing vulnerable adults, defining vulnerable adults as individuals 18 or older with cognitive impairment, mental disability, or brain disorder.
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Authorizes the Commissioner to develop and implement programs using federal, state, and local resources including training curriculum for law enforcement, a 24-hour toll-free hotline, and dissemination of missing persons information and photographs without disclosing vulnerability status.
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Requires development of model "Gold Alert" notification plans in consultation with State Police that enable rapid dissemination through police communications, radio/broadcast media, and internet/mobile service providers, with statewide response initiated when local law enforcement deems necessary.
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Designates a unit within the Division to assist law enforcement and media organizations in designing and implementing missing vulnerable adult response plans across all New York State jurisdictions.
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Makes knowingly false reports of missing vulnerable adults a Class A misdemeanor and requires the Commissioner to submit annual reports to the Governor and Legislature with statistical data and summary of clearinghouse activities.
Legislative Description
Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse; provides for plan and implementation programs to ensure the most effective use of federal, state, and local resources in the investigation of missing vulnerable adults; disseminates a directory of resources to assist in locating missing vulnerable adults; provides for cooperation with the department of health, office of mental health, office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, office for the aging, and other public and private organizations to develop education and prevention programs concerning the safety of vulnerable adults; provides for assistance from federal, state and local agencies in the investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults; utilizes available resources to duplicate photographs and posters of vulnerable adults reported as missing by police and disseminate this information throughout the state providing such posters indicate only that the adult is missing with no mention of vulnerability; provides assistance in returning missing vulnerable adults who are located out of state; develops a curriculum for the training of law enforcement personnel investigating cases involving missing vulnerable adults, including recognition and management of vulnerable adults; operates a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to relay information concerning missing vulnerable adults; maintains and makes available to appropriate state and local law enforcement agencies information concerning technological advances that may assist in facilitating the recovery of missing vulnerable adults; takes such other steps as necessary to assist in education, prevention, service provision, and investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults.
Last Action
tabled
8/16/2010