Bill Text: NJ A4889 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates certain child care centers to retain audio-visual recordings for 180 days and requires review of such recordings before recordings can be deleted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-17 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee [A4889 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4889-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4889

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 17, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  LINDA S. CARTER

District 22 (Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman McCann Stamato, Assemblymen Rodriguez, DeAngelo, Venezia, Marenco, Assemblywomen Morales and Ramirez

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Mandates certain child care centers to retain audio-visual recordings for 180 days and requires review of such recordings before recordings can be deleted.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning child care centers and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    All child care centers licensed pursuant to P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.) that have an audio-visual system installed on the premises shall be required to retain such audio-visual surveillance for 180 days from the time of initial recording.  After the 180-day period, recordings may be deleted.  The Department of Children and Families or an organization designated by the department shall review the retained recordings prior to deletion.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require all child care and family day care centers that have an audio-visual surveillance system in place to retain all recordings for 180 days.  This bill would also require the Department of Children and Families or an independent third-party organization designated by the department to review the recordings before the recordings can be deleted.

     This bill would not require child care and family day centers that do not currently have an audio-visual surveillance system in place to install such a surveillance system.