§ 3021-a. Notification of accusatory instrument alleging a sex
offense. 1. For purposes of this section:

(a) The term "employee" means any person receiving compensation from a
school district, charter school, board of cooperation educational
services, private elementary or secondary school, special education
schools, or employee of a contracted service provider or worker placed
within the school under a public assistance employment program pursuant
to title nine-B of article five of the social services law, and
consistent with the provisions of such title for the provision of
services to such district or school, its students or employees, directly
or through contract, whereby such services performed by such person
involved direct student contact.

(b) The term "sex offense" means an offense for which registration as
a sex offender is required pursuant to article six-C of the correction
law.

2. When an accusatory instrument has been filed alleging the
commission of a sex offense by a person known to be an employee of a
school district, charter school, board of cooperative educational
services, private elementary or secondary school, or special education
schools, it is the responsibility of the district attorney to
immediately notify the superintendent of schools or school administrator
that employs such employee of the accusatory instrument and the sex
offense or offenses alleged therein.

3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the rights,
privileges, or remedies of any employee contained within section three
thousand twenty-a of this article, or section seventy-five of the civil
service law, or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment
contract.