Albany County, NY
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2023-03-21
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Division 3: Resolutions
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Chapter 382 Internet and Electronic Account Privacy Protection
- Division 1: Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 2: Local Laws
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 9 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 17 Ethics and Financial Disclosure
- Ch 23 Fire Insurance Proceeds
- Ch 44 Mass Transportation
- Ch 51 Nature and Historical Preserve
- Ch 58 Officers and Employees
- Ch 65 Property, County
- Ch 79 Traffic Safety Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Air Pollution
- Ch 102 Airport
- Ch 106 Alcohol and Controlled Substances
- Ch 110 Animals
- Ch 117 Bicycles and Scooters
- Ch 125 Child Protection
- Ch 130 Corrections
- Ch 135 Economic Development
- Ch 138 Employment Practices
- Ch 142 Energy Conservation
- Ch 146 Environmental Review and Protection
- Ch 153 Farming
- Ch 157 Fees and Charges
- Ch 161 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 165 Fireworks
- Ch 170 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 175 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 187 Home and Day Care Providers
- Ch 191 Human Rights
- Ch 194 Hunting
- Ch 210 Oil and Gas Operations
- Ch 218 Pesticides
- Ch 226 Retail Sales
- Ch 233 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 242 Smoking and Tobacco Products
- Ch 247 Solid Waste
- Ch 253 Stormwater Management
- Ch 258 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 265 Tattooing and Body Piercing
- Ch 270 Taxation
- Ch 274 Taxicabs
- Ch 279 Towing
- Ch 288 Vehicles
- Ch 292 Veterans
- Ch 297 Water
- Division 3: Resolutions
- Ch 305 Affirmative Action Plan
- Ch 307 Agricultural Districts
- Ch 315 Airport
- Ch 320 Boards, Committees, Commissions and Agencies
- Ch 329 Children and Families
- Ch 332 Corrections and Correctional Facility
- Ch 335 County Facilities
- Ch 338 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 342 Departments
- Ch 346 Development Corporations
- Ch 353 Energy and Environmental Sustainability Policy
- Ch 357 Fees
- Ch 360 Finance and Taxation
- Ch 364 Flag Policy
- Ch 376 Hunting and Trapping
- Ch 382 Internet and Electronic Account Privacy Protection
- § 382-1 Intent.
- § 382-2 Requests for disclosure of passwords for personal devices prohibited.
- § 382-3 Retaliation prohibited.
- § 382-4 Requests for disclosure of passwords for County systems permitted.
- Ch 386 Investment Policy
- Ch 395 Landlords and Tenants
- Ch 400 Land Use
- Ch 404 Legislation, Adoption of
- Ch 410 Local Food Purchasing Policy
- Ch 418 Mental Health Clinics
- Ch 421 Nondiscrimination Policy (Title VI Plan)
- Ch 425 Personnel Policies and Benefits
- Ch 429 Pesticide Use
- Ch 434 Property, Disposition of
- Ch 440 Public Utility Service
- Ch 445 Purchasing and Contracts
- Ch 455 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 463 Senior Community Service Program
- Ch 469 Smoking
- Ch 475 Stormwater Management
- Ch 488 Workplace Violence Prevention Policy
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Albany County Legislature 7-9-2012 by Res. No. 228-2012. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Employees of Albany County are entitled to user name and password
privacy on their own electronic communication devices, including,
but not limited to, computers, telephones, personal digital assistants
and other similar devices that use electronic signals to create, transmit
and/or receive information. Employees of Albany County are also entitled
to user name and password privacy for personal accounts accessed through
their own electronic communications devices.
No department head or other person acting in a supervisory capacity
or any agent of a department head or other person acting in a supervisory
capacity, or any other person in a position of authority within Albany
County government may request that an employee or applicant for employment
with Albany County disclose any user name, password or other means
for accessing a personal electronic communications device or a personal
account accessed through such electronic communications device.
No Albany County employee shall be discharged, disciplined or
otherwise penalized and no applicant for employment with Albany County
shall be refused employment as a result of their refusal to disclose
their user name and/or password for their own electronic communications
devices or personal accounts accessed through such electronic communications
devices.
Unless otherwise prohibited by statute, regulation or other
law, this prohibition shall not prohibit any department head or other
person acting in a supervisory capacity, or any agent of a department
head or other person acting in a supervisory capacity, or any other
person in a position of authority within Albany County government
from requiring any employee to disclose any user name, password or
other means for accessing accounts or services that provide access
to Albany County's internal computer and information systems.
