A 3913: Directs the office of information technology services to establish a gun violence alert system to be added to the emergency alert notification system, known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert to provide real-time warnings and emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citizens of New York State.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3913 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT in relation to directing the office of information technology services to add a gun violence alert to the New York alert system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The office of information technology services shall estab- 2 lish a gun violence alert to be added to the emergency alert notifica- 3 tion system, also known as alert.ny.gov or NY-Alert. Such gun violence 4 alert shall be added to the list of notifications available via phone 5 call, email, text message, fax or other method to provide real-time 6 warnings and emergency information pertaining to gun violence to citi- 7 zens of New York State. Such gun violence alerts shall notify those 8 NY-Alert subscribers within a one-mile radius of such gun violence, as 9 determined by the law enforcement agency or division reporting such gun 10 violence to the emergency alert notification system, for the protection 11 and safety of persons located within such area. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06488-01-5