2021 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils
Article 61 - Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff
3021-A - Notification of Accusatory Instrument Alleging a Sex Offense.

Universal Citation: NY Educ L § 3021-A (2021)
§  3021-a.  Notification  of  accusatory  instrument  alleging  a  sex
offense.  1. For purposes of this section:

(a) The term "employee" means any person receiving compensation from a school district, charter school, board of cooperation educational services, private elementary or secondary school, special education schools, or employee of a contracted service provider or worker placed within the school under a public assistance employment program pursuant to title nine-B of article five of the social services law, and consistent with the provisions of such title for the provision of services to such district or school, its students or employees, directly or through contract, whereby such services performed by such person involved direct student contact.

(b) The term "sex offense" means an offense for which registration as a sex offender is required pursuant to article six-C of the correction law. 2. When an accusatory instrument has been filed alleging the commission of a sex offense by a person known to be an employee of a school district, charter school, board of cooperative educational services, private elementary or secondary school, or special education schools, it is the responsibility of the district attorney to immediately notify the superintendent of schools or school administrator that employs such employee of the accusatory instrument and the sex offense or offenses alleged therein. 3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee contained within section three thousand twenty-a of this article, or section seventy-five of the civil service law, or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment contract.

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