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History
- Vetoed memo.255
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.474
- Substituted for A7468
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.868
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- Referred to finance
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Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Charles Barron
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S3790
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing
Purpose or general idea of bill
To amend the executive law in relation to requiring police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 sets forth that this act shall be known and may be cited as "Lamont Dottin's law".
Section 2 establishes in the event a police agency receives a report of a missing person, and such person does not qualify as a missing child or an a vulnerable adult, the police agency shall collect the information required to file an electronic report to the National Crime Information Center Register. Within 24 hours of taking the report, if the police agency has not been notified that the person has been located, the police agency shall submit the report to the National Crime Information Center Register.
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 since February 1996. This legislation seeks to prevent future confusion and heartache by requiring law enforcement to take a report whenever a person is reported missing and send such report to the National Crime Information Center Register.
This will create a permanent record of all reports of missing persons. This will assist law enforcement in searching for such person if it is determined subsequent that such person is indeed missing. Further, in the event the missing person is located in either a hospital or a morgue, this registry will assist in identifying the person and will reunite the missing person with his or her family or, if the person is deceased, it will help the family some semblance of closure.
Prior legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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