Senate Bill S8172

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-S8172 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-S8172 - 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-S8172 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8172 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8172
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   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 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.
                                                            LBD11737-04-5

2025-S8172A - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-S8172A - 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-S8172A - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8172A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8172--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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
 
 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.
                                                            LBD11737-06-5

2025-S8172B (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §127, Cor L

2025-S8172B (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-S8172B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8172B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8172--B
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   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.
                                                            LBD11737-09-5

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