A 1755 —

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This bill amends 1 section(s) of the New York Consolidated Laws: Section 17 of the social services law.

• Section 17 of the social services law

  (m) require that all temporary housing facilities shall provide access to high-speed broadband internet service and WiFi service to all indi- viduals residing in such temporary housing. The WiFi service shall be made available in private and common areas accessible to residents. Such shelter shall have at least one router and at least one modem, or any technological equivalent that performs the function of providing an area with high-speed broadband internet service. This subdivision shall not apply to any temporary housing facility located within an area of the state which is unserved by, or does not have access to, broadband internet service. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "high- speed broadband internet service" means internet service with download speeds of at least one gigabit per second and upload speeds of at least italics one gigabit per second, or if such speeds are not available the maximum download and upload speeds commercially available within the local social services district. The term "WiFi service" means access to high- speed broadband internet through wireless router which connects to the internet by wire or cable. For purposes of this subdivision, temporary housing shall include but not be limited to, shelters for adults, shel- ters for adult families, small-capacity shelters, shelters for families with children, domestic violence shelters, runaway and homeless youth shelters, shelters in hotels or shelters for refugees. Each temporary housing facility shall submit their plan to provide internet access pursuant to this subdivision to the department for oversight and approval within one year of the effective date of this subdivision. Temporary housing facilities shall implement and comply with such plans within one year of such approval. (1) (i) A temporary housing facility shall not use, disclose, sell, retain, or permit access to the personal information pertaining to a person residing in temporary housing obtained in the course of providing internet access except as required to provide such access without regard to content, application, service, or use of a non-harmful device, or to respond to a warrant or subpoena issued by a court of competent juris- diction. (ii) For the purposes of this subdivision, personal information shall mean information that directly or indirectly identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked to a particular individual, family, or personal device. Informa- tion is reasonably linkable to an individual, family, or personal device if it can be used on its own or in combination with other reasonably available information, regardless of whether such other information is held by the social services district or temporary housing facility, to identify an individual, family, or a personal device. (2) Any contract or agreement for internet access provided by an internet service provider to a temporary housing facility shall have the same terms and conditions, other than the requirements of this section, as the regularly priced comparable internet plan offered by such inter- net service provider. (3) Local social services districts, temporary housing facilities, and their employees and subcontractors shall not be required to actively monitor or control the information accessed through the WiFi service and shall not be held responsible for any illegal and/or criminal activities committed, orchestrated, or organized through the provided WiFi access by residents. (4) Where credentials, such as a password and username, are necessary to access WiFi, temporary housing facilities shall conspicuously display such credentials in all public areas of the facility. Temporary housing facilities need not disclose the credentials to access WiFi that is reserved for staff or emergency service use. (5) Where a temporary housing facility is a hotel or motel as defined in section one hundred thirty-one-v of this chapter, and such temporar

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