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Senate Bill S9413

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing body-worn cameras to certain individuals visiting correctional facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S9413 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10487
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §146, Cor L

2025-S9413 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide body-worn cameras to certain individuals visiting correctional facilities and provide those individuals with the footage from such cameras.

2025-S9413 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9413 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9413
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 providing body-worn
   cameras to certain individuals visiting correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 146 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 274 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  A.  The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure
 all  correctional  facilities:  The  governor  and  lieutenant-governor,
 commissioner  of  general  services, secretary of state, comptroller and
 attorney-general, members of the commission of  correction,  members  of
 the  legislature  and  their  accompanying staff and any employee of the
 department as requested by the member of the legislature if  the  member
 requests  to  be  so  accompanied,  provided  that such request does not
 impact upon the department's ability to supervise,  manage  and  control
 its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of
 appeals,  supreme  court and county judges, district attorneys and every
 clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two  of  the
 religious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the coun-
 ty  wherein any such facility is situated. No other person not otherwise
 authorized by law shall be permitted to enter  a  correctional  facility
 except  by  authority of the commissioner of correction under such regu-
 lations as the commissioner shall prescribe.
   B. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE TO ALL INDIVIDUALS VISITING A  CORREC-
 TIONAL  FACILITY PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A BODY-
 WORN CAMERA TO BE WORN FOR THE DURATION OF THE VISIT AND INSTRUCTION  ON
 HOW  TO OPERATE SUCH BODY-WORN CAMERA. A COPY OF ANY FOOTAGE CAPTURED ON
 SUCH BODY-WORN CAMERA SHALL BE TRANSMITTED TO THE INDIVIDUAL WEARING THE
 CAMERA, OR THEIR DESIGNEE, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF THE END OF  THEIR
 VISIT.
   §  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

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