N.Y. Education Law § 3021-a: Notification of accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense

§ 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.