STATE OF NEW YORK
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6912
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring video
surveillance at the entrances and exits of medical wards and clinics
located in correctional facilities
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 140-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 140-a. Patient security. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law,
4 rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner shall require every
5 correctional facility to conspicuously install video cameras at all
6 entrances and exits of its medical wards and clinics. Every such
7 correctional facility shall post signage to inform patients, visitors
8 and staff that surveillance is in operation at such designated areas.
9 2. Such video cameras shall operate on a continuous recording basis
10 with footage securely stored for a minimum of ninety days. Access to
11 such footage shall be restricted to authorized personnel of the correc-
12 tional facility and shall be subject to periodic audits by the attorney
13 general.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10875-02-5
