Virginia House Bill 1534 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
Pending: House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Use of body-worn camera system by the Department of State Police. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to implement and operate a body-worn camera system, which is defined by the bill as an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, and processing audiovisual recordings, including cameras or other devices capable of creating such recordings that may be worn about the person of a law-enforcement officer, and require all officers be equipped with a body-worn camera. The bill provides that the Department of State Police shall, on a daily basis, transmit all recordings made by the system during the previous 24-hour period to a database maintained by the Attorney General. Recordings shall be retained in the database for 30 days but may be retained longer if relevant for the investigation of a crime. The bill also provides that recordings in the database shall not be disclosed except pursuant to a court order or when an allegation that a law-enforcement officer has engaged in unlawful conduct has been made. The bill provides further that any other law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth may implement and operate a body-worn camera system subject to the same requirements as the system operated by the State Police. Finally, the bill provides that any person who knowingly disseminates any audiovisual recording created through the operation of a body-worn camera system in violation of the limitations on such dissemination is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

Body-worn camera system; use by the Department of State Police.

Del. Mark Berg [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
2015-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-01-15	House	Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
2015-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2015-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101742D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1534
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1534+hil