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NY S02754
Bill
Status
6/6/2024
Primary Sponsor
Jamaal Bailey
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AI Summary
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Expands parental notification requirements when youth ages 16-18 are arrested to include "youth" beyond just juvenile and adolescent offenders, requiring police to immediately notify parents or legal guardians of the arrest and detention location.
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Exempts notification when the youth is not a juvenile offender and parental notification would endanger the youth's health or safety, but requires police to make reasonable efforts to contact an adult family member or unrelated adult over age 25 in such cases.
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Requires police to make reasonable efforts to notify parents when arrested persons ages 16-18 face non-violent class B, C, or D felonies or certain sex-related charges and the local criminal court is unavailable.
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Extends the definition of "sexually exploited child" from under age 18 to under age 19 in social services law provisions regarding sex trafficking victims and safe house services.
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Takes effect November 1 following enactment, with conditional provisions for alignment with chapter 23 of the 2024 laws.
Legislative Description
Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants upon a youth; provides for the police officer to make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth or with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth; amends provisions relating to sexually exploited children to include persons under the age of nineteen.
Last Action
referred to codes
6/7/2024