§ 500-q. Disclosure of video footage related to the death of\nincarcerated individuals involving correction officers or peace officers\nemployed at a local correctional facility. 1. Definition. As used in\nthis section, "video footage" shall include, but not be limited to,\nrecordings from fixed or stationary cameras, body-worn cameras, handheld\ndevices, or any other recording equipment maintained or used by\ncorrectional staff within a local correctional facility.\n 2. Duty to disclose. Any local correctional facility shall disclose to\nthe attorney general's office of special investigation any video footage\nthat such office deems to be related to the death of an incarcerated\nindividual. This shall include any case in which the attorney general's\noffice of special investigation determines the death involves a\ncorrection officer or peace officer employed at a local correctional\nfacility.\n 3. Timeframe for disclosure. The chief administrative officer of the\nlocal correctional facility or chief administrative officer's designee\nshall make reasonable good faith efforts to ascertain the existence of\nand obtain any relevant video footage or audio recordings that existed\nor that may be related to the death and shall disclose such video\nfootage or audio records within seventy-two hours of the occurrence of\nthe death. If the chief administrative officer of the local correctional\nfacility or chief administrative officer's designee subsequently learns\nof additional video footage or audio recordings which are related to the\ndeath, the chief administrative officer or the chief administrative\nofficer's designee shall disclose such recordings within twenty-four\nhours of such discovery and provide the circumstances surrounding the\ndiscovery of such records to the attorney general's office of special\ninvestigations.\n 4. Redactions and exceptions. No redactions shall be made to the video\nfootage before it is disclosed to the attorney general's office of\nspecial investigation.\n
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