N.Y. Education Law § 3028-c: Protection of school employees who report acts of violence and weapons possession

§ 3028-c. Protection of school employees who report acts of violence

and weapons possession. Any school employee having reasonable cause to

suspect that a person has committed an act of violence while in or on

school property, or having reasonable cause to suspect that a person has

committed an act of violence upon a student, school employee or

volunteer either upon school grounds or elsewhere, or having reasonable

cause to suspect that a person has brought a gun, knife, bomb or other

instrument capable of or that appears capable of causing death or

physical injury upon school grounds who in good faith reports such

information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law

enforcement authorities, shall have immunity from any civil liability

that may arise from the making of such report, and no school district or

school district employee shall take, request or cause a retaliatory

action against any such employee who makes such report.