Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras

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Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras

Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.

What This Bill Does

• Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.

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Official Summary Text

Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras
Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10110

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 30, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 for an
          adverse inference in disciplinary  proceedings  against  testimony  of
          correction officers who disable cameras

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF ANY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING OF AN INCARCERATED
     4  INDIVIDUAL IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, THERE SHALL BE AN ADVERSE  INFER-
     5  ENCE  AGAINST  THE  TESTIMONY  OF  AN  OFFICER  OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF THE
     6  DEPARTMENT, WHERE SUCH OFFICER OR  OTHER  EMPLOYEE  VIOLATED  DEPARTMENT
     7  RULES  OR  REGULATIONS  BY  TURNING  OFF  A FACILITY CAMERA OR BODY-WORN
     8  CAMERA OR OTHERWISE PREVENTED SUCH CAMERA OR CAMERAS FROM RECORDING  THE
     9  INCIDENT WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF SUCH DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13255-01-5