N.Y. Education Law Section 1128-A
Additional duties of school administrators and superintendents

1.

Where a superintendent of schools or, in a school other than a school district or public school, the school administrator forwards to law enforcement a report as described in paragraph (a) of subdivision one or subdivision one-a of § 1126 (Duties of employees specifically enumerated in this section upon receipt of an allegation of child abuse in an educational setting)section eleven hundred twenty-six of this article, he or she shall refer such report to the commissioner where the employee or volunteer alleged to have committed an act of child abuse as defined in this article holds a certification or license issued by the department.

2.

A report which is made pursuant to this article and does not, after investigation, result in a criminal conviction shall be expunged from any record which may be kept by a school or school district with respect to the subject of such a report after a period of five years from the date of the making of such report or at such earlier time as such school, or school district, as the case may be, determines.

Source: Section 1128-A — Additional duties of school administrators and superintendents, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EDN/1128-A (updated Jun. 7, 2019; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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