N.Y. Executive Law § 646: Police reports

* § 646. Police reports. 1. A victim of crime shall be entitled,

regardless of physical injury, without charge to a copy of a police

report of the crime.

2. An individual whose identity was assumed or whose personal

identifying information, as defined in section 190.77 of the penal law,

was used in violation of section 190.78, 190.79 or 190.80 of the penal

law, or any person who has suffered a financial loss as a direct result

of the acts of a defendant in violation of section 190.78, 190.79,

190.80, 190.82 or 190.83 of the penal law, who has learned or reasonably

suspects that his or her personal identifying information has been

unlawfully used by another, may make a complaint to the local law

enforcement agency of the county in which any part of the offense took

place regardless of whether the defendant was actually present in such

county, or in the county in which the person who suffered financial loss

resided at the time of the commission of the offense, or in the county

where the person whose personal identification information was used in

the commission of the offense resided at the time of the commission of

the offense as provided in paragraph (l) of subdivision four of section

20.40 of the criminal procedure law. Said local law enforcement agency

shall take a police report of the matter and provide the complainant

with a copy of such report free of charge.

3. An individual who has been the victim in this state of a family

offense as defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 of the criminal

procedure law or section eight hundred twelve of the family court act

may, upon alleging that it would be a hardship for him or her to make

such complaint in the local jurisdiction in which such offense occurred,

make a complaint to any local law enforcement agency in the state

regardless of where the act took place. Such local law enforcement

agency shall take a police report of the matter, as well as prepare a

domestic violence incident report as defined in subdivision fifteen of

section eight hundred thirty-seven of this chapter and provide the

complainant with a copy of such report free of charge. A copy of the

police report and completed domestic violence incident report shall be

promptly forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency with

jurisdiction over the location where the incident is reported to have

occurred for the purposes of further investigation.

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