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- Print number 5574a
- Amend and recommit to cities
- Referred to cities
- Referred to cities
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Enacts the "Safe Streets Security Camera Registry Act"
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Nelson Castro
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BILL NUMBER:S5574A
Title of bill
An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enactment of the "safe streets security camera registry act"
Purpose
The purpose of the registry is to give the NYPD an inventory of all private security cameras looking upon public spaces in the city. The NYPD will not have automotive or immediate access to the video produced from the cameras, except as a result of the case-by-case arrangements that are sometimes made by individual camera owners. If there is a crime in the vicinity of one or more of the cameras, the NYPD will be able to access the registry for the location and owner/operator of the camera. If the NYPD wishes to access the video produced by any of the cameras, it will have to follow the normal procedure of obtaining consent or a subpoena for the footage.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 § 2. Legislative intent. Creating the Security Camera Registry will strengthen the NYPD's ability to pursue the perpetrators of crimes by enhancing its ability to collect video evidence, ensuring this evidence is collected thoroughly and quickly, and thereby shortening the time needed to bring criminal investigations to a successful conclusion. The database will be beneficial both during such criminal investigations and also in order to enhance NYDP internal investigations as well.
§3. Amends the administrative code by adding a new section 14-154: Security Camera Registry. A) The New York Police Department shall create and maintain an online registry and database of all privately-owned and operated security cameras within the city of New York. B) New security camera installations will be registered with the department's only registry and database. C) Security cameras installed prior to the enactment of this section shall register with the department's registry. D) In the event that a crime occurs within the vicinity of a security camera registered with the department's database, the department shall obtain the consent of the camera owner to view any footage recorded or obtain a subpoena for production of such video. E) The security camera registry and database will be used solely for law enforcement purposes.
§4. This act shall take effect immediately.
Justification
Currently, the NYPD collects information on the location of security cameras manually, by means of periodic surveys conducted by patrol officers. These surveys, because they are periodic, do not capture
the locations of newly-installed cameras in a timely manner, and because they rely on personal observations by officers throughout the city, are bound to be incomplete. criminal investigations and also in order to enhance NYPD internal investigations as well. The registry will only alert the police to the existence of cameras that observe persons in public places. Nothing in this proposed legislation will impinge upon the civil liberties of the people of New York City.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
Minimal.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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