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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 557

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Relating to: body cameras on law enforcement officers and providing criminal penalties. (FE)

Data processing Justice, department of Police

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates requirements for law enforcement agencies that use body

cameras on law enforcement officers, including requirements for agency policies,

which encounters must be recorded, restrictions on the use of recordings, and

retention practices as well as limitations on encounters that may not be recorded.

The bill creates limitations on access to data from body cameras. The bill makes it

a Class I felony to tamper with, delete, copy, or upload data obtained from a body

camera or to tamper with or destroy a body camera. This bill also creates the Law

Enforcement Body Camera Council in the Department of Justice to make

recommendations to the legislature and to establish best practices regarding body

cameras worn by law enforcement officers.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Crowley (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D)

2 cosponsors

Johnson (D) , Larson (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 19, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives C. Taylor, Crowley, Sargent, Anderson, Berceau, Bowen, Considine and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Larson and Johnson

  2. Oct 19, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1