Bill Text: NY A10748 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the release of body camera recordings in instances where an officer fires a gun and hits someone or could have caused injury, uses a stun gun, or makes use of any other force that causes harm within thirty days of such incident.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - referred to governmental operations [A10748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10748

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 9, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Mosley) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the  release
          of  body  camera  recordings in instances where an officer fires a gun
          and hits someone or could have caused injury,  uses  a  stun  gun,  or
          makes  use  of  any other force that causes harm within thirty days of
          such incident

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-w
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 837-w. Body camera recordings release; use of force. 1. Police agen-
     4  cies shall release body camera recordings of instances  where  a  police
     5  officer or peace officer: (a) fires a gun and hits someone or could have
     6  caused  injury; (b) uses a stun gun; or (c) makes use of any other force
     7  that causes harm. Such body camera recordings shall be  released  within
     8  thirty days of such instance.
     9    2.  As used in this section, "body camera recordings" shall mean video
    10  and audio recordings captured by a camera worn by a  police  officer  or
    11  peace officer.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16891-01-0