Arizona HB 4111: immigration; customs officers; body cameras

Bill Text

HB4111 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: immigration; customs officers; body 
 cameras

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HB 4111

 Introduced by 

 Representatives 
 Hernandez L: Aguilar, Blattman, Connolly, Contreras P, Crews, Garcia, 
 Hernandez A, Luna-N�jera, M�rquez, Peshlakai, Tsosie

AN 
ACT

amending title 38, chapter 8, Arizona 
Revised Statutes, by adding article 4; relating to public safety officers.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 38, chapter 8, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended by adding article 4, to read:

ARTICLE 4. united states 
immigration and customs 

enforcement officer CAMERAS AND 
RECORDINGS

START_STATUTE38-1181. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise 
requires:

1. "Contact":

(a) Means an 
interaction that is with an individual who is either inside or outside of a 
motor vehicle and that is initiated by a united states immigration and customs 
enforcement officer, whether consensual or nonconsensual, to enforce a law or 
to investigate a possible violation of a law.

(b) Does not 
include routine interactions with the public at the point of entry or exit from 
a controlled area.

2. "Tamper" means to 
intentionally damage, disable, dislodge or obstruct the sight or sound or 
otherwise impair functionality of a body-worn camera or to intentionally 
damage, delete or fail to upload some or all portions of the video and audio of 
a body-worn camera. END_STATUTE

START_STATUTE38-1182. United States immigration and customs enforcement officers; 
body-worn cameras; incident recording requirements; exceptions; presumptions; 
privacy interests; filing deadlines; notice 

A. NOTWITHSTANDING any other law, 
each united states immigration and customs enforcement officer operating in 
this state who has contact with the public shall be equipped with a body-worn 
camera.

B. Except as provided in subsection C 
of this section, a united states immigration and customs enforcement officer 
shall wear and activate a body-worn camera when responding to a call for 
service or during any contact with the public.

C. A united states immigration and 
customs enforcement officer may turn off a body-worn camera:

1. To avoid recording personal 
information that is not related to a case.

2. When working on an unrelated 
assignment.

3. When there is a long break in the 
incident or contact that is not related to the initial incident. 

4. In an administrative, tactical or 
management discussion that is not related to the initial incident.

D. If a united states immigration and 
customs enforcement officer fails to activate a body-worn camera when required 
by this section, or tampers with body-worn camera footage or operation when 
required to activate the body-worn camera, there is a permissive 
inference against the united states immigration and customs enforcement officer 
in any investigation or legal proceeding, not including criminal proceedings, 
that the missing footage would have reflected misconduct by the united states 
immigration and customs enforcement officer.� If a united states immigration 
and customs enforcement officer fails to activate or reactivate the united 
states immigration and customs enforcement officer's body-worn camera when 
required by this section, or tampers with body-worn camera footage or 
operation when required to activate the body-worn camera, any statement 
that is sought to be introduced in a prosecution through the united states 
immigration and customs enforcement officer that is related to the incident and 
that was not recorded because the united states immigration and customs 
enforcement officer failed to activate or reactivate the body-worn camera as 
required by this section, or if the statement was not recorded by other means, 
creates a rebuttable presumption of inadmissibility. Notwithstanding 
any other law, this subsection does not apply if the body-worn camera was 
not activated due to a malfunction of the body-worn camera and the united 
states immigration and customs enforcement officer was not aware of the 
malfunction, or was unable to rectify it, before the incident. 

E. In addition to any criminal 
liability or other penalty under the law, if a court, administrative law judge, 
hearing officer or final decision in an internal investigation finds that a 
united states immigration and customs enforcement officer intentionally failed 
to activate a body-worn camera or tampered with a body-worn camera, except as 
allowed in this section, the united states immigration and customs enforcement 
officer's employer shall impose discipline up to and including termination to 
the extent allowed by the applicable constitutional and statutory personnel 
laws and case law. 

F. If criminal charges have been 
filed against a party to the incident and that party wishes to file a 
c