N.Y. Social Services Law § 425: Cooperation of other agencies

§ 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of

this title, the commissioner may request and shall receive from

departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any of

its political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other

agency providing services under the local child protective services plan

such assistance and data as will enable the department and local child

protective services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing

contained in this subdivision shall limit the department's authority

under sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four

hundred sixty-e of this chapter to access the records of authorized

agencies.

2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the

division of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene,

the commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled and the

state education department shall develop guidelines to be utilized by

appropriate state and local governmental agencies and authorized

agencies as defined by subdivision ten of section three hundred

seventy-one of this article which have responsibility for the care and

protection of children, in evaluating persons who have a criminal

conviction record and who have applied to such agencies or provider

agencies, as defined in subdivision three of section four hundred

twenty-four-a of this title for employment or who have applied to such

state agencies or licensing agency as defined in subdivision four of

section four hundred twenty-four-a of this title, for a license,

certificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive parent, provider of

day care services in a day care center, family day care home or group

family day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of

article thirteen-B of the public health law, or an operator of a foster

family home subject to the provisions of subdivision seven of section

five hundred one, section five hundred two or subdivision three of

section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law or section three

hundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.

3. The guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision two of this

section shall not supercede any similar guidelines developed by local

governmental agencies prior to January first, nineteen hundred

eighty-six.