File #: Int 0291-2014    Version: * Name: Requiring the NYPD to allow individuals to request certain records through its website.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 4/29/2014
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York City Police Department to allow individuals to request certain records through its website.
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Fernando Cabrera , Margaret S. Chin, Costa G. Constantinides, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Peter A. Koo, Deborah L. Rose, Karen Koslowitz, Ydanis A. Rodriguez
Council Member Sponsors: 9

Int. No. 291

 

By Council Members Dromm, Cabrera, Chin, Constantinides, Cornegy, Koo, Rose, Koslowitz and Rodriguez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York City Police Department to allow individuals to request certain records through its website. 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Chapter one of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 14-155, to read as follows:

§14-155.  Records available on the world wide web.  The department’s website shall provide a manner in which individuals may submit an on-line request for certain records, including but not limited to (a) reports verifying a crime or listing lost property and (b) police accident reports. 

                     § 2. This local law shall take effect 180 days after its enactment into law, provided that the commissioner may take any actions necessary prior to such effective date for the implementation of this local law including, but not limited to, promulgating rules and regulations.

 

CJG

LS 907/2014

Int. 140/2010

4/14/14