Requires the release of body camera recordings in instances where an officer fires a gun and hits someone or could have caused injury, uses a stun gun, or makes use of any other force that causes harm within thirty days of such incident.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5289
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the release
of body camera recordings in instances where an officer fires a gun
and hits someone or could have caused injury, uses a stun gun, or
makes use of any other force that causes harm within thirty days of
such incident
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-y
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-y. Body camera recordings release; use of force. 1. Police agen-
4 cies shall release body camera recordings of instances where a police
5 officer or peace officer: (a) fires a gun and hits someone or could have
6 caused injury; (b) uses a stun gun; or (c) makes use of any other force
7 that causes harm. Such body camera recordings shall be released within
8 thirty days of such instance.
9 2. As used in this section, "body camera recordings" shall mean video
10 and audio recordings captured by a camera worn by a police officer or
11 peace officer.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09895-01-5
