S.T.O.P. Legislative Tracker

Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.

Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.

Provides for the award of reasonable attorneys' fees in FOIL proceedings if the person is successful and in open meeting proceedings to the successful petitioner and against the public body.

Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes.

This bill would mandate the protection of health information; require communications to individuals about their health information; and require written consent for the processing of an individual's health information. See our memo of support here.

This bill would ban both geofence warrants and keyword warrants to prevent large-scale location tracking. See our memo of support here.

This bill would prohibit police from creating fake social media accounts and coercing people to provide social media passwords. Police use fake accounts to monitor Black Lives Matter activists and deceive children into exposing private content. See our memo of support here.

This bill would narrow law enforcement exemptions in the Personal Privacy Protection Law (PPPL) to require a warrant and expands the law to cover local agencies. New Yorkers should not have to choose between receiving government benefits and maintaining privacy. See our memo of support here.

Creates the New York electronic communications privacy act; requires government agents and agencies to obtain a search warrant for physical or electronic access to electronic device information.

Enacts the "digital fairness act"; requires any entity that conducts business in New York and maintains the personal information of 500 or more individuals to provide meaningful notice about their use of personal information; establishes unlawful discriminatory practices relating to targeted advertising.

This bill would prohibit New York transit authorities and their vendors from sharing fare payment data with police without a warrant. It also requires a cash payment option for transit cards in each station with a capped cost, protecting unbanked New Yorkers from a privacy/poverty tax. See our memo of support here.

This bill would prohibit law enforcement use of biometric surveillance, such as facial recognition. Facial recognition software is biased, broken, and antithetical to a democratic society. It is up to 100 more likely to misidentify women of color than white men. Numerous people, disproportionately Black, have been wrongly arrested after being misidentified through facial recognition.

This bill would prohibit the implementation of any biometric surveillance system or biometric surveillance information in public accommodation sites.

This bill would prohibit the use of facial recognition by landlords on all premises.

This bill would prohibit cell-site simulators, which let police track large numbers of phones at protests and other sensitive sites. See our memo of support here.

This bill would prohibit New York’s state and local government agencies from colluding with ICE, disclosing data, and diverting resources to further federal immigration enforcement. This bill is essential to make New York a true sanctuary state. See our memo of support here.

This bill requires police to stop using any DNA database other than New York’s official DNA index. New York City and other localities maintain illegal DNA databases which are ripe for abuse. These databases let police trick New Yorkers, including young children, to expose their DNA, potentially keeping it forever.

This bill would ban police use of DNA phenotyping to predict what the suspect of a crime might look like, including what race they may be. New York must ban this dangerous pseudoscience before it leads to wrongful arrests and convictions. 

This bill would require the division of criminal justice services to publish a public, searchable database of police infractions misconduct complaints on its website.

This bill would prohibit law enforcement from obtaining an individual’s electrical or gas consumption data without a court-ordered subpoena, warrant or the individual’s written consent.

This bill would prohibit police agencies from using robots that are weaponized, robots that are non-weaponized but dangerous, or robots used for surveillance.

This bill would allow municipalities to create disciplinary processes for police officers such that the department or its commissioner do not get final say in the process.

This bill would prohibit facial recognition technology to be used in connection with an officer camera used by both local and state police including the storage of biometric data.

This bill would require the Department of Buildings (DOB) to establish a pilot program for the use of drones, in conjunction with physical examinations and close-up inspections, in the inspection of building façades. See our memo of opposition here.

This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) install surveillance cameras in each community district to identify any person depositing household refuse in a public litter basket.

This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to install a camera on each street sweeper, which would photograph and report a parking violation, to the DSNY Commissioner who would report the violation to the Department of Finance (DOF) and NYPD for enforcement.

This bill would enact the New York privacy act to require companies to disclose their methods of de-identifying personal information, to place special safeguards around data sharing and to allow consumers to obtain the names of all entities with whom their information is shared.

This bill would require e-mail service providers to implement a procedure to authenticate an individual's identity when such individual creates a new e-mail account. See our memo of opposition here.

This bill would encourage stores to use facial recognition technology to ensure purchasers of alcohol and cigarettes are of legal age. See our sign-on letter here. See our memo of opposition here.

This bill would criminalize photoshopped lewd content, including satire. See our memo of opposition here.

This bill would disclose to a parent the personal information and content about a minor collected by an operator of an internet platform when a parent requests such information.

This bill would prevent interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.

This bill would require certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera.

This bill would require the installation and use of surveillance cameras in all racetracks.

This bill relates to establishing a pilot program for the use of body-worn cameras on certain correction officers.

This bill would require certain employees of the New York state department of corrections and community supervision to wear body cameras.

This bill would authorize certain local municipal agencies to use surveillance cameras to combat illegal dumping.

This bill would establish criteria for the use of automated employment decision tools; provides for enforcement for violations of such criteria.