Bill Text: NY S04343 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04343 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04343-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4343 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes 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-x 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-x. 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. LBD08796-01-3
