Prohibits employees of the department of corrections and community supervision or a correctional facility from willfully obstructing, blocking or otherwise obscuring a body-worn or stationary camera from recording activities within a correctional facility for the purpose of hindering an existing or potential investigation, concealing a crime or criminal activity, or concealing otherwise unlawful behavior.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8249--C
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from
said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee
with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting the
obscuring of body-worn or stationary cameras in correctional insti-
tutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 127
2 to read as follows:
3 § 127. Obscuring body-worn or stationary cameras. No employee of the
4 department or a local correctional facility shall willfully obstruct,
5 block or otherwise obscure a body-worn or stationary camera from record-
6 ing within a correctional facility for the purpose of hindering an
7 existing or potential investigation, concealing a crime or criminal
8 activity, or concealing otherwise unlawful behavior. An employee who
9 violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemea-
10 nor.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11737-10-5
