S 1646: Requires every parole officer and employee of the department of corrections and community supervision to wear body cameras with video and audio whenever they are interacting with a parolee; implements the use of cameras in every official office and room in the department.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1646 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ 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 executive law, in relation to requiring certain employees of the New York state department of corrections and communi- ty supervision to wear body cameras The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 259-c of the executive law is amended by adding two 2 new subdivisions 18 and 19 to read as follows: 3 18. require every parole officer and employee of the department to 4 wear body cameras with video and audio whenever they are interacting 5 with a parolee. 6 19. implement the use of cameras in every official office and room in 7 the department. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04869-01-5