A 8331: Requires disciplinary hearings for incarcerated individuals to be recorded with both audio and visual components; requires such recordings to be preserved; directs the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations for who can access such recordings and when such recordings can be accessed.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8331 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring discipli- nary hearings for incarcerated individuals to be recorded The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 137-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 137-a. Disciplinary hearings to be recorded. The department shall 4 ensure that every incarcerated individual disciplinary hearing held at a 5 correctional facility shall be recorded with both audio and visual 6 components. The department shall maintain and preserve the full audio 7 and video recording and shall add such recordings to the subject incar- 8 cerated individual's file within the department's database. The commis- 9 sioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to allow for access to 10 such audio and video recordings, including but not limited to when such 11 audio and video recordings can be accessed, and by whom such audio and 12 video recordings can be accessed by. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11545-01-5