N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 14-118.1: § 14-118.1 Voluntary fingerprinting of school children.

a. The commissioner shall, in cooperation with the board of education, local school boards and private schools, institute a program to train persons designated by the appropriate school authority to administer the voluntary fingerprinting of New York city public and private school students in grades kindergarten through twelve and such persons to be trained shall not be police or police auxiliary personnel.

b. The program shall provide resources so that every school may offer the parents or legal guardians of a child the opportunity to have the child fingerprinted at school.

c. No child may be fingerprinted without first presenting an authorization form signed by a parent or legal guardian. Notwithstanding parental consent, any child over the age of fourteen shall also sign an authorization form, or may refuse to participate in the program.

d. Any fingerprints or other information supplied under the program shall be placed in the sole custody of the child's parents or legal guardians on the same day as supplied and no copy or record of such fingerprints shall be retained by the commissioner or the school. Upon the child attaining the age of eighteen years, said child shall be entitled to the return of his/her fingerprints from the parents or legal guardians.