§ 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of
this title, the commissioner may request and shall receive from
departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any of
its political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other
agency providing services under the local child protective services plan
such assistance and data as will enable the department and local child
protective services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing
contained in this subdivision shall limit the department's authority
under sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four
hundred sixty-e of this chapter to access the records of authorized
agencies.

2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the
division of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene,
the commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled and the
state education department shall develop guidelines to be utilized by
appropriate state and local governmental agencies and authorized
agencies as defined by subdivision ten of section three hundred
seventy-one of this article which have responsibility for the care and
protection of children, in evaluating persons who have a criminal
conviction record and who have applied to such agencies or provider
agencies, as defined in subdivision three of section four hundred
twenty-four-a of this title for employment or who have applied to such
state agencies or licensing agency as defined in subdivision four of
section four hundred twenty-four-a of this title, for a license,
certificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive parent, provider of
day care services in a day care center, family day care home or group
family day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of
article thirteen-B of the public health law, or an operator of a foster
family home subject to the provisions of subdivision seven of section
five hundred one, section five hundred two or subdivision three of
section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law or section three
hundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.

3. The guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision two of this
section shall not supercede any similar guidelines developed by local
governmental agencies prior to January first, nineteen hundred
eighty-six.