2006 New York Code - Duties Of Employees Specifically Enumerated In This Section Upon Receipt Of An Allegation Of Child Abuse In An Educational Setting.

 
    §  1126.  Duties  of employees specifically enumerated in this section
  upon receipt of an allegation of child abuse in an educational  setting.
  1. In any case where an oral or written allegation is made to a teacher,
  school  nurse,  school  guidance  counselor, school psychologist, school
  social worker, school administrator, school board member or other school
  personnel required to hold  a  teaching  or  administrative  license  or
  certificate,  that  a  child  has  been  subjected  to child abuse by an
  employee or volunteer in an educational setting, such person shall  upon
  receipt of such allegation:
    (a)  promptly  complete  a written report of such allegation including
  the full name of the child alleged to be abused; the name of the child's
  parent; the identity of the  person  making  the  allegation  and  their
  relationship  to  the  alleged child victim; the name of the employee or
  volunteer against whom the allegation was made; and  a  listing  of  the
  specific  allegations  of  child  abuse  in an educational setting. Such
  written report shall be upon a form  as  prescribed  in  section  eleven
  hundred thirty-two of this article.
    (b) except where the school administrator is the person receiving such
  oral  or  written allegation, promptly personally deliver a copy of such
  written report to the school administrator of the school  in  which  the
  child abuse allegedly occurred.
    2.  In  any  case  where  it  is alleged that a child was abused by an
  employee or volunteer of a school other than a school within the  school
  district of the child's attendance, the report of such allegations shall
  be  promptly  forwarded  to  the superintendent of schools of the school
  district of the child's attendance and the  school  district  where  the
  abuse  allegedly  occurred,  whereupon both school superintendents shall
  comply with sections eleven  hundred  twenty-eight  and  eleven  hundred
  twenty-eight-a of this article.
    3.  Any employee or volunteer who reasonably and in good faith makes a
  report of allegations of child abuse in  an  educational  setting  to  a
  person  and  in  a  manner described in this section shall have immunity
  from civil liability which might otherwise  result  by  reason  of  such
  actions.