S 7138: Prohibits the release of criminal history or any mental health history records by a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner of individuals who were the subject of the use of force by a police or peace officer.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7138 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the release of certain records of victims of police violence by a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 845-f 2 to read as follows: 3 § 845-f. Release of certain records of victims of police violence; 4 medical examiners. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contra- 5 ry, no coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner who performs an 6 inquiry, autopsy or examination, including any report prepared thereon, 7 over an instance or occurrence in which a police officer, as defined in 8 subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, 9 or a peace officer, as defined in section 2.10 of the criminal procedure 10 law, employs the use of force, as described in section eighty hundred 11 thirty-seven-t of this article, shall publicly release or otherwise 12 disseminate any information, including but not limited to providing such 13 information to a news or media organization, related to either the crim- 14 inal history or any mental health history of the individual who was the 15 subject of the use of force. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06399-03-5