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N.Y. General Business Law § 380-g: Public record information

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  1. General Business Law
  2. Article 25. Fair Credit Reporting Act

§ 380-g. Public record information. A consumer reporting agency which

compiles and reports items of information on consumers which are matters

of public record shall:

(a) at the time such public record information is reported to the user

of such consumer report, notify the consumer of the fact that public

record information is being reported by the consumer reporting agency,

together with the name and address of the person to whom such

information is being reported; or

(b) maintain reasonable procedures designed to insure that whenever

public record information is reported it is complete and up to date to

the extent practicable. It shall be deemed a reasonable procedure for a

consumer reporting agency to accurately report the status of public

record information as of the date recorded in its files provided such

information is updated on a regular basis.

(c) When conducting a reinvestigation as required by subdivision (a)

of section three hundred eighty-f of this article, a consumer reporting

agency shall promptly record and report the current status of the public

record.

(d) When a consumer reporting agency provides a consumer report that

contains criminal conviction information, permitted by paragraph one of

subdivision (a) of section three hundred eighty-j of this article, to a

user, the person, firm, corporation or other entity requesting such

report shall provide the subject of such report a printed or electronic

copy of article twenty-three-A of the correction law governing the

licensure and employment of persons previously convicted of one or more

criminal offenses.

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