New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S04992 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/14/2025

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4992 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the state police to have a local liaison within the New York state intelligence center who alerts municipalities of certain suspected domestic extrem- ism threats The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 214-j 2 to read as follows: 3 § 214-j. Local liaison. Within the state police, there shall be at 4 least one person within the New York state intelligence center desig- 5 nated the local liaison. The local liaison's duties shall include, but 6 not be limited to: 7 1. Alerting municipalities of suspected domestic extremism threats. 8 2. Receiving information from local law enforcement regarding domes- 9 tic extremism threats, including but not limited to, domestic extremism 10 threats made on social media and online locations and activities that 11 facilitate radicalization and promote violent extremism. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09734-01-5