NYSentencing

§ 490.01 Liability protection.
  1. Any person who makes a qualified disclosure of suspicious  behavior
shall  be  immune  from  civil and criminal liability for reporting such
behavior.
  2. For purposes of this article, "qualified disclosure  of  suspicious
behavior"  means  any  disclosure  of  allegedly  suspicious behavior of
another individual or individuals to any person that  is  made  in  good
faith  and  with  the  reasonable  belief  that such suspicious behavior
constitutes, is indicative of, or is in furtherance of a crime or an act
of terrorism.
  3. An action alleging that a statement or disclosure by  a  person  of
any  suspicious  transaction,  activity or occurrence indicating that an
individual may be engaging in  or  preparing  to  engage  in  suspicious
behavior which constitutes, is indicative of, or is in furtherance of, a
crime  or  an  act  of terrorism was not made in good faith and with the
reasonable belief that such suspicious behavior constitutes,  is  indic-
ative  of,  or is in furtherance of, a crime or an act of terrorism must
be pled with particularity pursuant to subdivision  (b)  of  rule  three
thousand sixteen of the civil practice law and rules.
(Added by L. 2007, c. 651, effective 8/28/07. )