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Assembly Bill A8249C

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the obscuring of body-worn or stationary cameras in correctional institutions

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Bill Amendments

2025-A8249 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8172
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-A8249 - Summary

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.

2025-A8249 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8249
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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  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:
 
   Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 127
 to read as follows:
   § 127. OBSCURING BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERAS. NO EMPLOYEE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT OR A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL OBSTRUCT, BLOCK OR OTHERWISE
 OBSCURE A BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERA FROM RECORDING ACTIVITIES WITH-
 IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A FELONY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11737-01-5

2025-A8249A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8172
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-A8249A - Summary

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.

2025-A8249A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8249--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction -- 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:
 
   Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 127
 to read as follows:
   § 127. OBSCURING BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERAS. NO EMPLOYEE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT OR A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL WILLFULLY OBSTRUCT, BLOCK OR
 OTHERWISE OBSCURE A BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERA FROM RECORDING ACTIV-
 ITIES  WITHIN  A  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY.  A  PERSON  WHO  VIOLATES  THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11737-03-5

2025-A8249B - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8172
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-A8249B - Summary

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.

2025-A8249B - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8249--B
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee --  again  reported  from
   said  committee  with  amendments,  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:
 
   Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 127
 to read as follows:
   § 127. OBSCURING BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERAS. NO EMPLOYEE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT OR A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL WILLFULLY OBSTRUCT, BLOCK OR
 OTHERWISE OBSCURE A BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERA FROM RECORDING ACTIV-
 ITIES  WITHIN  A  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY.  A  PERSON  WHO  VIOLATES  THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF AN UNCLASSIFIED  MISDEMEA-
 NOR.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11737-05-5

2025-A8249C (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8172
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-A8249C (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A8249C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8249--C
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee --  again  reported  from
   said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and
   recommitted to said committee -- again reported  from  said  committee
   with  amendments, 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:
 
   Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 127
 to read as follows:
   § 127. OBSCURING BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERAS. NO EMPLOYEE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OR  A  LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL WILLFULLY OBSTRUCT,
 BLOCK OR OTHERWISE OBSCURE A BODY-WORN OR STATIONARY CAMERA FROM RECORD-
 ING 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.  AN  EMPLOYEE  WHO
 VIOLATES  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEA-
 NOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11737-10-5

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