N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 50-e: Personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants

§ 50-e. Personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and

lieutenants. 1. As used in this section, "personnel records of bridge

and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants" means all personnel

records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and lieutenants as

defined in subdivision twenty of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure

law, used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or

promotion, and under the control of the Triborough bridge and tunnel

authority.

2. Personnel records of bridge and tunnel officers, sergeants and

lieutenants shall be disclosed in a court action pursuant to the

relevant provisions of the criminal procedure law, the civil practice

law and rules, or any other provision of law governing such disclosure

only after the court has notified the subject of such record that such

record may be disclosed in a court action and the court has given the

subject of such record an opportunity to be heard on the question of

whether the records sought are relevant and material in the action

before the court. If, after such hearing, the court determines that only

a portion of such records are relevant and material in the action before

it, it shall make those parts of the record found to be relevant and

material available to the persons so requesting.

3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any grand jury or

any agency of government which requires the records described in

subdivision one of this section in the furtherance of their official

duties.