S8172 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Prohibits employees of the department of corrections and community supervision or a correctional facility from willfully obstructing, blocking or otherwise obscuring a body-worn or stationary camera from recording activities within a correctional facility for the purpose of hindering an existing or potential investigation, concealing a crime or criminal activity, or concealing otherwise unlawful behavior.
- Title
- Prohibits the obscuring of body-worn or stationary cameras in correctional institutions
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Introduced
- 2025-05-19
- Active version
- S8172B
- Same as
- A8249
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Cordell Cleare State Senator, District 30
Heard in committee
- Correction NY State Assembly committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A8249 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.