2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 35 - Division of Criminal Justice Services › 845 - Central State Registry of Police Officers and Peace Officers.

§ 845. Central  state  registry of police officers and peace officers.
1. The division shall collect information  to  maintain,  on  a  current
basis,  a  registry  of  all  police  officers and peace officers in the
state. Such registry shall contain, with respect to each officer, his or
her name,  date  of  birth,  social  security  number,  rank  or  title,
employer,  and  date  of  successful  completion of training required by
section 2.30 of the criminal  procedure  law  and  section  two  hundred
nine-q of the general municipal law.
2. (a) Each head of a state or local agency, unit of local government,
state  or local commission, public authority or other organization which
employs  police  officers  or  peace  officers  shall  transmit  to  the
division,  no later than the fifteenth day of January annually, and in a
form and manner prescribed by the division, a list containing  the  name
of  every police officer or peace officer employed by his or her agency,
government,  commission,  authority  or  organization  indicating   with
respect  to  each  officer  his  or  her  date of birth, social security
number, rank or title, employer, and whether he is employed full-time or
part-time. In addition to such annual list,  each  such  head,  whenever
officers  have  been  newly  appointed  or  have  ceased to serve, shall
immediately transmit to the division, in a form and manner prescribed by
the division, a list containing the names of such officers which, in the
instance of new appointees, shall include all the  information  required
to be furnished in the annual listing.
(b)  Whenever  officers  have  ceased  to  serve, each such head shall
immediately transmit to the division, in a form and manner prescribed by
the division, notification that any such officer has ceased to serve due
to a leave of absence,  resignation,  removal,  removal  for  cause,  or
removal during a probationary period.
3.  (a)  The division shall establish rules and regulations to provide
for a permanent system of  identification  for  each  police  and  peace
officer,  which  shall include procedures for updating the registry upon
an officer's failure to  complete  required  training  within  the  time
limitations established in law or regulation.
(b)  Such  rules  and  regulations shall also establish procedures, in
accordance with the state administrative procedure act, for a process as
described in this paragraph. When it shall appear to the commissioner or
the commissioner's designee that a notification of the  reason  such  an
officer  ceased  to  serve,  received  by  the  commissioner pursuant to
paragraph (b) of subdivision two of this section,  is  inaccurate  in  a
material  respect,  the  commissioner  shall  attempt  to  resolve  such
discrepancy by contacting the head of the  office  that  submitted  such
notification.  If  such  informal efforts do not resolve the discrepancy
promptly, the commissioner may issue a  notice  to  such  head  and  the
officer  who  is the subject of such notification of an inquiry into the
accuracy of such record. After notice and an opportunity for each to  be
heard,  if  the  commissioner  finds  such  record to be inaccurate with
respect to such matter in a material  respect,  the  commissioner  shall
provide  notice  of  such determination to each of them and, pursuant to
such determination, may correct  such  record.  The  commissioner  shall
maintain  a clear documentary record of both the original record and the
correction made.
4. Upon the failure or refusal to  comply  with  the  requirements  of
subdivision  two  of  this  section,  the  commissioner may apply to the
supreme court for an order directed to the person responsible  requiring
compliance.  Upon such application the court may issue such order as may
be just, and a failure to comply with the order of the court shall be  a
contempt of court and punishable as such.
5.  The  division shall cooperate with the division of state police in
making the information in the  central  registry  of  police  and  peace
officers  available  for the purpose of verifying transactions involving
firearms.