Bill > S06773

This bill amends New York's penal law to make it a crime for a police or peace officer to turn off their body camera or delete its recording when it is required by their department or agency policy, classifying this action as both tampering with physical evidence and obstructing governmental administration. Tampering with physical evidence, a felony, now specifically includes a police or peace officer concealing, altering, or deleting body camera footage or its audio recording when they believe it will be used in an official proceeding. Obstructing governmental administration, a misdemeanor, is expanded to include a police or peace officer intentionally hindering the administration of law or a public servant's official function by turning off their body camera or its audio in situations where recording is mandated by policy.

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https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6773