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N.Y. Executive Law § 837-m: Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with respect to missing children and vulnerable adults

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  1. Executive Law
  2. Article 35. Division of Criminal Justice Services

* § 837-m. Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with

respect to missing children and vulnerable adults. The chief of every

police department, each county sheriff and the superintendent of state

police shall report, at least semi-annually, to the division with

respect to specified cases of missing children that are closed. Such

reports shall be in the form and manner prescribed by the division and

shall contain such information as the division deems necessary

including, but not limited to, information regarding recovered children

who were arrested, children who were the victims of criminal activity or

exploitation and children who were found deceased and information

regarding the alleged abductor or killer of such children. Any law

enforcement department referred to in this section may, in its

discretion, include in such semi-annual reports information relating to

missing vulnerable adults as such term is defined in section eight

hundred thirty-seven-f-one of this article.

* NB There are 2 § 837-m's

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