Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide body-worn cameras to certain individuals visiting correctional facilities and provide those individuals with the footage from such cameras.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10487
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing body-worn
cameras to certain individuals visiting correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 146 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 274 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. a. The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure
5 all correctional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor,
6 commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and
7 attorney-general, members of the commission of correction, members of
8 the legislature and their accompanying staff and any employee of the
9 department as requested by the member of the legislature if the member
10 requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not
11 impact upon the department's ability to supervise, manage and control
12 its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of
13 appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every
14 clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the
15 religious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the coun-
16 ty wherein any such facility is situated. No other person not otherwise
17 authorized by law shall be permitted to enter a correctional facility
18 except by authority of the commissioner of correction under such regu-
19 lations as the commissioner shall prescribe.
20 b. The department shall provide to all individuals visiting a correc-
21 tional facility pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision, a body-
22 worn camera to be worn for the duration of the visit and instruction on
23 how to operate such body-worn camera. A copy of any footage captured on
24 such body-worn camera shall be transmitted to the individual wearing the
25 camera, or their designee, within twenty-four hours of the end of their
26 visit.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
28 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14934-01-6
