A 4157: Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing; provides such training shall be created in consultation with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4157 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police offi- cer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disabili- ty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 840 of the executive law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows: 3 (n) Establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis, of a train- 4 ing program for all current and new police officers and peace officers 5 regarding how to interact with individuals with a disability as defined 6 in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of this 7 chapter, with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve 8 interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing. 9 The content of such training program shall be created in consultation 10 with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs 11 as established under article twenty of this chapter. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 13 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the 14 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation by the 15 municipal police training council necessary for the implementation of 16 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 17 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03513-01-5