2025 New York Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs
562 - Abuse and Neglect Notification.

§ 562. Abuse and neglect notification. 1. (a) Upon receiving a request
for  criminal  history  information,  pursuant  to section eight hundred
forty-five-b of this chapter, for a prospective employee or volunteer of
a facility or provider licensed, operated, or certified  by  the  office
for  people  with  developmental  disabilities, the justice center shall
furnish a  summary  of  any  substantiated  reports  in  its  possession
regarding  a  final  finding of category two conduct pursuant to section
four hundred ninety-three of the social services law, by  a  prospective
employee  or  volunteer.  The  justice center shall provide such summary
report  to  the  authorized  person  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b)  of
subdivision  one  of  section eight hundred forty-five-b of this chapter
and at that same time furnish such documents to the prospective employee
or volunteer at the address for such person listed on the request.
  (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a  facility  or
provider  licensed,  operated or certified by the office for people with
developmental disabilities shall be provided  a  summary  of  any  final
finding  of  category  two  conduct  pursuant  to  section  four hundred
ninety-three of the social services  law,  for  a  current  employee  or
volunteer,  where the substantiated category two conduct in such summary
occurred at another facility or  provider  agency.  The  justice  center
shall  additionally provide such summary to the employee or volunteer if
such summary has not previously been provided.
  (c) For the purposes of this subdivision, a final finding of  category
two  conduct  shall  mean  a finding for which all relevant hearings and
appeals have been exhausted and has not been sealed in  accordance  with
section four hundred ninety-three of the social services law.
2.  The summary report provided by the justice center to a provider of
services pursuant to subdivision one of this section shall  be  received
by the provider subject to the confidentiality provisions of subdivision
seven of section eight hundred forty-five-b of this chapter.