File #: Int 0735-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the NYC department of education to provide certain security measures for nonpublic schools.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 3/12/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to provide certain security measures for nonpublic schools.
Sponsors: Joel Rivera, Simcha Felder, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, John C. Liu, Michael C. Nelson, Kendall Stewart, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, David Yassky, Bill De Blasio, Vincent Ignizio, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 16

Int. No. 735

 

By Council Members Rivera, Felder, Vallone Jr., Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, James, Liu, Nelson, Stewart, Vacca, Weprin, Yassky, de Blasio, Ignizio and Oddo

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to provide certain security measures for nonpublic schools.

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 20 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new section 530 to read as follows:

§530.  Provision of security services to nonpublic schools.

a.                     Definitions.  For the purposes of this section, “nonpublic school” shall mean any nonprofit elementary or secondary school in the city of New York, other than a public school, which is providing instruction in accordance with the education law of the state of New York.

b.                     The New York city department of education shall, upon request of the authorities of a nonpublic school, provide children who attend such school with any or all of the security services which are made available by the department of education to or for children attending the department’s public schools.  Such security measures may include, but are not limited to, an assessment of the security needs of the nonpublic school, placement of school safety officers at the nonpublic school and the use of video cameras or metal detectors.  The New York city police department shall cooperate with the department of education in implementing these security measures.

§2.  This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law. 

 

 

1/28/08

LS # 4158

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