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A00825 Summary:

BILL NOA00825 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00613

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SPONSORLasher

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COSPNSRWoerner, Reyes, Kelles, Wright, Taylor, Cunningham, Lavine, Romero, Torres, Bores

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §245.20, CP L

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Requires police departments and agencies to provide district attorneys' offices access to such departments' and agencies' electronic record systems for discovery purposes.

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BILL NOA00825 

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01/08/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 825

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to giving prose-
 cutors' offices access to law enforcement records for discovery
 purposes

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature enacted reforms of the
 2 discovery process in two thousand twenty to enhance transparency and
 3 fairness in criminal proceedings by ensuring that defendants have timely
 4 access to the evidence against them. However, the implementation of
 5 these reforms has placed significant burdens on both district attorneys'
 6 offices and law enforcement agencies, which must meet tight deadlines
 7 for the collection and disclosure of vast amounts of records. The
 8 effects of this burden are exacerbated by the current lack of direct
 9 access by district attorneys' offices to law enforcement evidence
 10 systems, forcing prosecutors to rely on a manual and delayed process for
 11 obtaining critical materials.
 12 To address these challenges, this act seeks to improve the efficiency
 13 of the discovery process by granting district attorneys' offices direct
 14 access to law enforcement records and databases related to the subject
 15 matter of criminal cases. This access will help alleviate delays, reduce
 16 the administrative burden on both prosecutors and law enforcement, and
 17 ensure that cases are resolved based on their merits rather than proce-
 18 dural failures. By allowing staff in district attorneys' offices to
 19 directly retrieve records, the act also aims to return police officers
 20 to their core responsibilities of maintaining public safety.
 21 The legislature finds that these reforms will promote the timely and
 22 fair resolution of criminal cases, advancing the interests of justice
 23 for both defendants and the public at large.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00487-02-5

 A. 825 2

 1 § 2. Section 245.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding
 2 a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 3 8. Prosecutor access to law enforcement materials. (a) Each district
 4 attorney's office shall have access to all electronic record systems
 5 including but not limited to documents, audio files, and video files,
 6 containing information related to the subject matter of a criminal case,
 7 or information that a court has ordered the prosecutor to disclose to
 8 the defense, of every police department or agency certified in accord-
 9 ance with paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section eight hundred
 10 forty-six-h of the executive law that operates within the county of such
 11 district attorney.
 12 (b) Every police department or agency shall issue no fewer than one
 13 login credential to each district attorney's office with access to such
 14 department's or agency's computer system pursuant to paragraph (a) of
 15 this subdivision and shall issue no fewer than one additional login
 16 credential for every twenty thousand residents of the county as deter-
 17 mined by the most recent federal census. The credentials issued may
 18 restrict the user to viewing, printing, downloading, or otherwise saving
 19 the materials accessed with no ability to generate, edit, or delete any
 20 documents, and may restrict a district attorney's office's acce