Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE
April 30, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing for an
adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of
correction officers who disable cameras
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. For the purposes of any disciplinary proceeding of an incarcerated
4 individual in a correctional facility, there shall be an adverse infer-
5 ence against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the
6 department, where such officer or other employee violated department
7 rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn
8 camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the
9 incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13255-01-5
