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Assembly Bill A10645

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires that all police officers involved in the execution of a search warrant wear body cameras

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2019-A10645 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §690.50, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1627
2023-2024: A6650
2025-2026: A7202

2019-A10645 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that each police officer involved in the execution of a search warrant wear a functioning and unobstructed body camera that shall be active prior to and throughout the execution of the search and during any related action following the execution of the search warrant.

2019-A10645 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10645
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Perry) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   that all police officers involved in the execution of a search warrant
   wear body cameras
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 690.50 of the criminal procedure law is amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A.  A  SEARCH WARRANT SHALL NOT BE EXECUTED WITHOUT THE EXECUTION OF
 SUCH WARRANT BEING RECORDED  BY  A  FUNCTIONING  AND  UNOBSTRUCTED  BODY
 CAMERA  OR  OTHER  FUNCTIONING  AND UNOBSTRUCTED VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE.
 EACH POLICE OFFICER INVOLVED IN THE EXECUTION OF A SEARCH  WARRANT  MUST
 WEAR  A  FUNCTIONING  AND  UNOBSTRUCTED BODY CAMERA THAT SHALL BE ACTIVE
 PRIOR TO AND THROUGHOUT THE EXECUTION  OF  THE  SEARCH  AND  DURING  ANY
 RELATED ACTION FOLLOWING THE EXECUTION OF THE SEARCH WARRANT, INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE SECURING OF PERSONS OR EVIDENCE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16715-01-0

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