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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8172--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2025
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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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,
bill amended, 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.
LBD11737-09-5
