File #: Int 0938-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring the New York city police department to provide the civilian complaint review board with direct access to officer body-warn camera footage and to establish related procedures.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 3/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city police department to provide the civilian complaint review board with direct access to officer body-warn camera footage and to establish related procedures
Sponsors: Adrienne E. Adams, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Tiffany Cabán, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Shaun Abreu, Shahana K. Hanif, Amanda Farías, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Gale A. Brewer, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Chi A. Ossé, Nantasha M. Williams, Erik D. Bottcher, Julie Won, Rita C. Joseph, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Althea V. Stevens, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Summary: The bill would require the New York City Police Department to provide the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) with direct access to all footage recorded by officer body-worn cameras. This access would provide designated CCRB employees real time connectivity to network servers hosting digital files of body-worn camera footage, and permit such employees to search, view, and use files for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting allegations of police misconduct.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 938, 2. Int. No. 938, 3. March 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 2, 2023, 6. Committee Report 3/27/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 3/27/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 3/27/23
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12/31/2023*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/27/2023*Adrienne E. Adams Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/27/2023*Adrienne E. Adams Committee on Public Safety Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 938

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Adams), the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams), and Council Members Rivera, Louis, Cabán, Richardson Jordan, Abreu, Hanif, Farías, De La Rosa, Brewer, Restler, Hudson, Ossé, Williams, Bottcher, Won, Joseph, Gutiérrez, Stevens and Sanchez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city police department to provide the civilian complaint review board with direct access to officer body-warn camera footage and to establish related procedures

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-193 to read as follows:

                     § 14-193 Body-worn camera footage. a. For the purpose of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

                     Body-worn camera. The term “body-worn camera” means a video recording device that can be attached or affixed to a person’s body, apparel or clothing.

                     Direct access. The term “direct access” means real time connectivity to the network servers hosting digital material which is provided to remote users for the purpose of accessing such information.

                     Remote user. The term “remote user” means designated employees of the civilian complaint review board.

                     b. Within 60 days after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the department shall provide the civilian complaint review board with direct access to all footage recorded by officer body-worn cameras.  Such access shall be comparable to that granted to the department’s internal affairs bureau, and provide user interface that, at a minimum permits: (i) remote users access to footage, including all visual and audio recordings captured by body-worn cameras utilized by department personnel; (ii) remote users to conduct searches for specific footage, using, at a minimum, searches based on keywords, dates, locations, or officer involved; and (iii) the civilian complaint review board to store and present body-worn camera footage in a manner necessary to facilitate the investigation and adjudication of allegations of misconduct, and any other legitimate purposes within the charter granted authority of the civilian complaint review board.

                     c. Direct access to such footage shall not be limited by the department unless such limitation is otherwise required by law. All body-worn camera footage maintained by the department must comply with relevant laws pertaining to segregation of sealed materials. 

                     § 2. This local law takes effect in 90 days.

 

 

 

 

 

LS #2441/4874/4902/4915

JDK

2/17/23