Allows for child protective services workers to complete the required training on the fundamentals of child protection through distance learning methods beginning April 1, 2025.
Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or school-age children in an outdoor space and that employ a curriculum with nature to teach enrolled children.
Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or school-age children in an outdoor space and that employ a curriculum with nature to teach enrolled children.
Provides for training requirements for child-protection and foster-care workers. (gov sig)
Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum of two hours of training, with one hour on the state's open meetings law and one hour on freedom of information law; requires certain local, city, county, town and village public body members to complete such training as well.
Child Protection Services social worker interviews with parents or children; require video and audio recordings.
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides requirements for fairness in disclosures to news media workers, news media consumers, oversight of AI systems, and workplace protections for news media workers.
Provides for retirement credit to fire protection inspector members for a child care leave of absence.
Requires all municipal corporations to report cybersecurity incidents and demands of ransom payments to the division of homeland security and emergency services; defines terms; requires cybersecurity incident reviews; requires cybersecurity awareness training, cybersecurity protection and data protection standards for state maintained information systems.
Requires all municipal corporations to report cybersecurity incidents and demands of ransom payments to the division of homeland security and emergency services; defines terms; requires cybersecurity incident reviews; requires cybersecurity awareness training, cybersecurity protection and data protection standards for state maintained information systems.