Assembly Bill A8745

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8745 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Cor L

2025-A8745 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.

2025-A8745 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8745
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 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  providing  for  an
   adverse  inference  in  disciplinary  proceedings against testimony of
   correction officers who disable cameras

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  137 of the correction law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. FOR THE PURPOSES OF ANY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING OF AN  INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUAL  IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, THERE SHALL BE AN ADVERSE INFER-
 ENCE AGAINST THE TESTIMONY OF  AN  OFFICER  OR  OTHER  EMPLOYEE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT,  WHERE  SUCH  OFFICER  OR OTHER EMPLOYEE VIOLATED DEPARTMENT
 RULES OR REGULATIONS BY TURNING  OFF  A  FACILITY  CAMERA  OR  BODY-WORN
 CAMERA  OR OTHERWISE PREVENTED SUCH CAMERA OR CAMERAS FROM RECORDING THE
 INCIDENT WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF SUCH DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD13255-01-5

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