What's happening
This bill allows law enforcement agencies to access fingerprints, palmprints, and photographs of juveniles adjudicated delinquent for a felony.
Why it matters
Expands law enforcement’s ability to access biometric records. allowing agencies to obtain fingerprints, palmprints, and photographs of juveniles adjudicated delinquent for a felony, which could increase investigative resources for solving crimes.
Raises privacy and rehabilitation concerns for youth. permitting broader sharing of juvenile records may impact how young people’s pasts follow them, potentially affecting future opportunities and the principle of giving juveniles a “fresh start.”
Creates a more permanent law enforcement record for certain juveniles. since these records are now explicitly made available “upon demand,” this could influence how juvenile felony adjudications are treated in background checks, investigations, or other legal contexts.
Applies stricter standards for the youngest offenders. maintains protections for 11- or 12-year-olds, limiting law enforcement notification and access only if the adjudication involves the most serious (class A or B) felonies, reflecting some continued sensitivity to very young offenders.
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Who cares
Law enforcement agencies
They would gain access upon demand to fingerprints, palmprints and photographs forwarded to the Division of Criminal Justice Services for qualifying juvenile delinquency adjudications.
Division of Criminal Justice Services
The division would receive these identifying records alongside adjudication notifications and would have to make them available to law enforcement upon demand.
Family courts
Courts would have to forward or arrange the forwarding of these identifying records along with the required felony adjudication notifications.
Juveniles adjudicated delinquent for felonies
Their identifying records would become available to law enforcement under this provision, with notification for children ages eleven or twelve limited to acts that would constitute class A or B felonies.
Headline styles
Share Juvenile Records with Police
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to codes
- Referred to codes
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4548
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to allowing law enforcement agencies access to fingerprints of juveniles adjudicated juvenile delinquents for commission of a felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 354.1 of the family court act, as added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
1. If a person whose fingerprints, palmprints or photographs were taken pursuant to section 306.1 or was initially fingerprinted as a juvenile offender and the action is subsequently removed to a family court pursuant to article seven hundred twenty-five of the criminal procedure law is adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent for a felony, the family court shall forward or cause to be forwarded to the division of criminal justice services notification of such adjudication along with such fingerprints, palmprints or photographs, which shall be made available to law enforcement agencies upon demand, and such related information as may be required by such division, provided, however, in the case of a person eleven or twelve years of age such notification shall be provided only if the act upon which the adjudication is based would constitute a class A or B felony.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08781-01-7
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