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2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.98
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–0
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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.60
- Referred to codes
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S1242
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to including the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree
Purpose
To expand upon the definition of aggravated harassment and provide further provisions in dissuading both the public and governmental personnel from unlawfully using or disclosing confidential information with intent to alarm another individual.
Summary of provisions
Section 240.30 of the Penal law is amended with a new subdivision.
Existing law
Existing law defines a person guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree when an individual is harassed, annoyed, threatened or alarmed by intent and through the usage of and/or by various forms of communications, and physical assault based on numerous factors. Such defined harassment includes verbal abuse, insults and epithets, intimidation or humiliation.
Justification
Harassment upon an individual is damaging and unavoidable when another individual has access to confidential information about the targeted individual. Claims against the individual can lead to reduced employee productivity and morale, higher turnover and absenteeism rates, and significant increases in medical and workers' compensation claims. Examples of harassment can comprise of a neighbor calling upon a city departmental agency on another individual to justify a false claim against that individual, to the placement of false complaints regarding illegal dumping of resources in to a neighboring reservoir. For each unfounded claim, an inspector must invest time and effort to investigate the claim. When an unfounded claim is determined, it becomes a waste of taxpayer time and money to the residents of New York and to the investigator.
When someone unlawfully causes personnel employed by a government agency or any political subdivision of the state or a municipality to interact with or contact in an official capacity that person, or is an actual employee of that government agency or political subdivision of the state or municipality and contacts that person, the person who unlawfully uses or discloses confidential information concerning the targeted individual with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm shall be held liable to a crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Legislative history
2010: S.6750 - Passed the Senate 61-0.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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