2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 49-B - (995 - 995-F) COMMISSION ON FORENSIC SCIENCE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DNA IDENTIFICATION INDEX
995-D - Confidentiality.

§ 995-d. Confidentiality.  1.  All  records,  findings,  reports,  and
  results of DNA testing performed on any person shall be confidential and
  may not be disclosed or redisclosed without the consent of  the  subject
  of  such  DNA testing. Such records, findings, reports and results shall
  not  be  released  to  insurance  companies,  employers   or   potential
  employers,   health   providers,   employment   screening  or  personnel
  companies, agencies, or services, private  investigation  services,  and
  may not be disclosed in response to a subpoena or other compulsory legal
  process  or  warrant, or upon request or order of any agency, authority,
  division, office, corporation, partnership,  or  any  other  private  or
  public  entity  or  person,  except  that nothing contained herein shall
  prohibit disclosure in response to a subpoena issued on  behalf  of  the
  subject of such DNA record or on behalf of a party in a civil proceeding
  where the subject of such DNA record has put such record in issue.
    2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  records, findings, reports, and results of DNA testing, other than a DNA
  record  maintained  in  the  state  DNA  identification  index,  may  be
  disclosed  in  a  criminal proceeding to the court, the prosecution, and
  the defense pursuant to a written request on a form  prescribed  by  the
  commissioner   of   the   division   of   criminal   justice   services.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, a DNA
  record maintained in the state DNA identification index may be disclosed
  pursuant to section nine hundred ninety-five-c of this article.

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