2015 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 6 - (411 - 428) CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
425 - Cooperation of other agencies.

 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of
  this  title,  the  commissioner  may  request  and  shall  receive  from
  departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any  of
  its  political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other
  agency providing services under the local child protective services plan
  such assistance and data as will enable the department and  local  child
  protective  services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing
  contained in this subdivision shall  limit  the  department's  authority
  under  sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four
  hundred sixty-e of this chapter to  access  the  records  of  authorized
  agencies.
2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the
  division of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene,
  the  commission  on  quality  of  care for the mentally disabled and the
  state education department shall develop guidelines to  be  utilized  by
  appropriate   state  and  local  governmental  agencies  and  authorized
  agencies  as  defined  by  subdivision  ten  of  section  three  hundred
  seventy-one  of  this article which have responsibility for the care and
  protection of children,  in  evaluating  persons  who  have  a  criminal
  conviction  record  and  who  have  applied to such agencies or provider
  agencies, as defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-four-a  of  this title for employment or who have applied to such
  state agencies or licensing agency as defined  in  subdivision  four  of
  section  four  hundred  twenty-four-a  of  this  title,  for  a license,
  certificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive  parent,  provider  of
  day  care  services  in a day care center, family day care home or group
  family day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of
  article thirteen-B of the public health law, or an operator of a  foster
  family  home  subject  to the provisions of subdivision seven of section
  five hundred one, section five  hundred  two  or  subdivision  three  of
  section  five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law or section three
  hundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.
3. The guidelines  developed  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  this
  section  shall  not  supercede any similar guidelines developed by local
  governmental  agencies  prior  to  January   first,   nineteen   hundred
  eighty-six.