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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–4
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.80
- Referred to judiciary
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–4
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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.763
- Referred to judiciary
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Provides for the inspection of family court proceedings records when a defendant who is the subject of such records is charged with a sex offense
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Albert A. Stirpe
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4792
Title of bill
An act to amend the family court act, in relation to the inspection of family court proceedings records when a defendant who is the subject of such records is charged with a sex offense
Purpose
This bill will allow the inspection of family court proceedings records when a defendant who is the subject of such records is charged with a sex offense.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 - Amends Section 166 of the family court act.
Section 2 - Effective date.
Justification
In March of 2013, a 29 year man required to wear an electronic monitoring device as a condition of his release from jail on child pornography charges, brought in federal Court, disabled the device, and traveled to a local mall in a Syracuse suburb, where he abducted a woman and ten year old child. He raped the ten-year old and then murdered the woman. During the investigation of this heinous crime it was discovered that the perpetrator had a sealed family Court record related to a previous sexual offense charge. Had those records been unsealed and reviewed at the time the child pornography charges were brought, this man may not have been granted the conditional release, and this tragic crime could have been prevented. By granting a Family Court officer the authority to review sealed records to determine if that record pertains to a sexual offense, and promptly provide them to a Court and/or prosecutor, future catastrophic events such as this could be prevented. However, the bill also continues to afford protections to juveniles for offenses which are not sexual offenses by requiring that those records continue to remain sealed, unless released after a hearing as current law allows.
Legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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