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- Print number 3274a
- Amend and recommit to finance
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- Referred to finance
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Relates to establishing uniform standards for searching for missing persons; expands state databanks to include adults
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Charles Barron
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Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults
Purpose
To amend the executive law, in relations to reporting duties with respect to missing children and adults.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 states this act may be cited as Lamont Dottin's law.
Section 2 amends the executive law by adding a new section 838-a detailing plans to be established regarding police response to missing adults.
Section 3 amends the executive law, section 837-f, to regard missing adults in the same capacity as missing children.
Section 4 amends the executive law, section 837-m, to include missing persons (i.e., not just children) among those who must be reported by local police, in addition to imposing a similar duty on morgues with regard to identified and non-identified bodies. Police departments are also required to establish a trained missing person specialist.
Section 5 provides this act shall take effect January 1, 2017.
Existing law
There are currently no such requirements with regard to missing adults.
Justification
Anita fowler's son, LaMont Dottin was a freshman at Queens College (CUNY) when he disappeared on October 18, 1995 after leaving his grandmother's house to mail a package to his mother, who was in California. Dr. Fowler returned immediately to New York and began searching for her son. She tried to report him as missing, but due to police regulations she was unable to file a report until November 13, 1995. Dr. Fowler searched for five years, when she found that her son's body was found six days after she reported him as missing, and lay unidentified in a grave at Potter's Field in February 1996. This legislation seeks to prevent future confusion and heartache by requiring law enforcement and agency coordination, using database technology to track missing person reports and unidentified bodies, and reforming guidelines for handling adult missing persons.
Legislative history
2014 S7404 Referred to Finance 2002 Referred to Children and Families
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Local fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.
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