N.Y. COR Law § 149

§ 149. Released incarcerated individuals; notification to sheriff,\npolice, and district attorney. In the case of any incarcerated\nindividual convicted of a felony, it shall be the duty of the department\nat least forty-eight hours prior to the release of any such incarcerated\nindividual from a correctional facility to notify the chief of police\nboth of the city, town or village in which such incarcerated individual\nproposes to reside and of the city, town or village in which such\nincarcerated individual resided at the time of his or her conviction and\nthe district attorney of the county where the offense for which the\nincarcerated individual is incarcerated was prosecuted, of the\ncontemplated release of such incarcerated individual, informing such\nchief of police and the district attorney of the name and aliases of the\nincarcerated individual, the address at which he or she proposes to\nreside, the amount of time remaining to be served, if any, on the full\nterm for which he or she was sentenced, and the nature of the crime for\nwhich he or she was sentenced, transmitting at the same time to the\nchief of police a copy of such incarcerated individual's fingerprints\nand photograph. Where such incarcerated individual proposes to reside\noutside of a city, such notification shall be sent to the sheriff of the\ncounty in which such incarcerated individual proposes to reside. Such\nnotification may be provided by electronic transmission to those willing\njurisdictions that have the capability of receiving electronic\ntransmission notification. Any chief of police or sheriff who receives\nnotification of a released incarcerated individual pursuant to this\nsection may request and receive from the division of criminal justice\nservices a report containing a summary of such incarcerated individual's\ncriminal record.\n