N.Y. Education Law § 1128-a: Additional duties of school administrators and superintendents

§ 1128-a. Additional duties of school administrators and

superintendents.

1. Where a superintendent of schools or, in a school other than a

school district or public school, the school administrator forwards to

law enforcement a report as described in paragraph (a) of subdivision

one or subdivision one-a of section eleven hundred twenty-six of this

article, he or she shall refer such report to the commissioner where the

employee or volunteer alleged to have committed an act of child abuse as

defined in this article holds a certification or license issued by the

department.

2. A report which is made pursuant to this article and does not, after

investigation, result in a criminal conviction shall be expunged from

any record which may be kept by a school or school district with respect

to the subject of such a report after a period of five years from the

date of the making of such report or at such earlier time as such

school, or school district, as the case may be, determines.