§ 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of\nthis title, the commissioner may request and shall receive from\ndepartments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any of\nits political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other\nagency providing services under the local child protective services plan\nsuch assistance and data as will enable the department and local child\nprotective services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing\ncontained in this subdivision shall limit the department's authority\nunder sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four\nhundred sixty-e of this chapter to access the records of authorized\nagencies.\n 2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the\ndivision of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene,\nthe commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled and the\nstate education department shall develop guidelines to be utilized by\nappropriate state and local governmental agencies and authorized\nagencies as defined by subdivision ten of section three hundred\nseventy-one of this article which have responsibility for the care and\nprotection of children, in evaluating persons who have a criminal\nconviction record and who have applied to such agencies or provider\nagencies, as defined in subdivision three of section four hundred\ntwenty-four-a of this title for employment or who have applied to such\nstate agencies or licensing agency as defined in subdivision four of\nsection four hundred twenty-four-a of this title, for a license,\ncertificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive parent, provider of\nday care services in a day care center, family day care home or group\nfamily day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of\narticle thirteen-B of the public health law, or an operator of a foster\nfamily home subject to the provisions of subdivision seven of section\nfive hundred one, section five hundred two or subdivision three of\nsection five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law or section three\nhundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.\n 3. The guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision two of this\nsection shall not supercede any similar guidelines developed by local\ngovernmental agencies prior to January first, nineteen hundred\neighty-six.\n
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