N.Y. Executive Law § 711: Reports

§ 711. Reports. 1. On or before January thirty-first of each year, the

director shall appear before and deliver a report to representatives of

each house of the legislature. The temporary president of the senate and

the speaker of the assembly shall each appoint four members of their

respective houses, and the minority leader of each house shall each

appoint one member, to hear the director's report. The appointed members

may hear the report in a joint meeting of the members of the senate and

assembly or in separate meetings attended by the members from one house.

The chief information security officer of the state office of

information technology services shall participate in such joint or

separate meetings to supplement the report delivered by the director.

The report shall provide information including, but not limited to: the

state's current threat level, imminent threats to New York state, the

state's current threat posture and collaborative efforts among

localities, regions and with other states to prepare for and defend

against acts of terrorism. The chief information security officer of the

state office of information technology services shall supplement the

report delivered by the director with information on the state's cyber

security infrastructure and cyber security resiliency efforts.

2. The commissioner shall appear and give testimony before the annual

legislative hearing on public protection held jointly by the assembly

committee on ways and means and the senate finance committee as provided

for in section three of article VII of the New York state constitution

and section thirty-one of the legislative law.

3. The director shall report to the temporary president of the senate,

speaker of the assembly and/or their designees within five days of an

elevation of the state homeland security advisory system threat level as

to the circumstances of the elevation.

4. Before the receipt of any report issued pursuant to this section,

each recipient of such report shall develop confidentiality protocols in

consultation with the director which shall be binding upon the recipient

who issues the protocols and anyone to whom the recipient shows the

report, for the maintenance and use of such report so as to ensure the

confidentiality of all sensitive information contained therein,

provided, however, that such protocols shall not be binding upon a

person who is provided access to such report or any information

contained therein pursuant to section eighty-nine of the public officers

law after a final determination that access to such report or any

information contained therein could not be denied pursuant to

subdivision two of section eighty-seven of the public officers law. The

director shall also develop protocols for his or her office related to

the maintenance and use of the report so as to ensure the

confidentiality of all sensitive information contained in the report. On

each copy of written reports, the director shall prominently display the

following statement: "This report may contain information that if

disclosed could endanger the life or safety of the public, and

therefore, pursuant to section seven hundred eleven of the executive

law, this report is to be maintained and used in a manner consistent

with protocols established to preserve the confidentiality of the

information contained herein in a manner consistent with law."