New York Laws
Part 1 - Compulsory Education
3213 - Supervisors of Attendance; Attendance Teachers; Attendance Officers; Appointment, Compensation, Powers and Duties.

(1) A supervisor of attendance, attendance teacher or attendance
officer, as the case may be, in the performance of his duties, may enter
during business hours any factory, mercantile or other establishment, or
other place in which a minor is believed to be employed within the city
or school district in which he is appointed, and shall be entitled to
examine on demand the employment certificates or work permits of minors
therein employed, for whose lawful employment such certificates or
permits are required by the provisions of part one of this article.
(2) He may also enter any public place during the hours in which the
public have access thereto, to ascertain if any minor is therein who is
required to attend upon instruction by the provisions of part one of
this article, or engaged in a street trade contrary to the provisions of
part one of this article, or to collect information required for the
school census.
c. Notification upon absence. It shall be the duty of every school
district to inform persons in parental relation to elementary school
pupils of such person's right to be notified when such pupil is deemed
absent from attendance at his designated school. Persons in parental
relation to elementary school pupils shall, if such notification is
desired, forward a request in writing to the principal of the pupil's
designated school. Such request shall contain the telephone number of
person or persons in parental relation to the pupil or other information
to facilitate communication with such persons by the most expedient
means available. No civil or criminal liability shall arise or attach to
any school district or employee thereof for any act or omission to act
as a result of, or in connection with, the duties or activities
authorized or directed by this paragraph.

d. Notification when deemed absent. A supervisor of attendance,
attendance teacher, attendance officer, or other person authorized by
the school district, as the case may be, shall, where a request for
notification has been made pursuant to paragraph c of this subdivision,
notify a person in parental relation to any elementary school pupil by
the means designated in such request when such pupil is deemed absent
from required attendance at his designated school without prior
notification and consent to such absence by the person in parental
relation. No civil or criminal liability shall arise or attach to any
school district or employee thereof for any act or omission to act as a
result of, or in connection with, the duties or activities authorized or
directed by this paragraph.
e. To the extent that supervisors of attendance, attendance teachers
and attendance officers act pursuant to this subdivision and subdivision
one of this section for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
part one of this article, they shall be deemed to have acted within the
scope of their employment. Such personnel shall continue to have all the
powers, duties and responsibilities conferred on them by law prior to
the date on which the provisions of this paragraph become effective.