Connecticut SB 225: AN ACT LOWERING THE CONTRIBUTION CAP OF THE PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM.

Bill Text

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 225
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 1537

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS

Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING FEES FOR COPYING, REVIEWING AND
REDACTING RECORDS CREATED BY POLICE BODY-WORN
RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND DASHBOARD CAMERAS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 29-6d of the 2026 supplement to the general statutes 1
is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 2
October 1, 2026): 3
(a) For purposes of this section, [and] section 2 of this act and section 4
7-277b: 5
(1) "Law enforcement unit" has the same meaning as provided in 6
section 7-294a; 7
(2) "Police officer" means a sworn member of a law enforcement unit 8
or any member of a law enforcement unit who performs police duties; 9
(3) "Body-worn recording equipment" means an electronic recording 10
device that is capable of recording audio and video; 11

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(4) "Dashboard camera" means a dashboard camera with a remote 12
recorder, as defined in section 7-277b; 13
(5) "Digital data storage device or service" means a device or service 14
that retains the data from the recordings made by body-worn recording 15
equipment using computer data storage; [and] 16
(6) "Police patrol vehicle" means any state or local police vehicle other 17
than an administrative vehicle in which an occupant is wearing body-18
worn camera equipment, a bicycle, a motor scooter, an all-terrain 19
vehicle, an electric personal assistive mobility device, as defined in 20
subsection (a) of section 14-289h, or an animal control vehicle; 21
(7) "Freedom of Information Act" has the same meaning as provided 22
in section 1-200; 23
(8) "Requesting party" means the person requesting a record created 24
using body-worn recording equipment or a dashboard camera pursuant 25
to the Freedom of Information Act; 26
(9) "Involved person" means (A) any individual depicted in the 27
record created using body-worn recording equipment or a dashboard 28
camera, (B) any individual directly involved in the incident that led to 29
the police officer being called to respond, or (C) any police officer 30
responding to such incident, including the police officer whose body-31
worn recording equipment or dashboard camera created the record; and 32
(10) "Redact" means to obscure, pixelate or mute any portion of a 33
record created using body-worn recording equipment or a dashboard 34
camera. 35
(b) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection 36
and the Police Officer Standards and Training Council shall jointly 37
evaluate and approve the minimal technical specifications of body-worn 38
recording equipment that shall be worn by police officers pursuant to 39
this section, dashboard cameras that shall be used in each police patrol 40
vehicle and digital data storage devices or services that shall be used by 41

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a law enforcement unit to retain the data from the recordings made by 42
such equipment. The commissioner and council shall make such 43
minimal technical specifications available to each law enforcement unit 44
in a manner determined by the commissioner and council. The 45
commissioner and council may revise the minimal technical 46
specifications when the commissioner and council determine that 47
revisions to such specifications are necessary. 48
(c) (1) Each police officer shall use body-worn recording equipment 49
while interacting with the public in such sworn member's law 50
enforcement capacity, except as provided in subsection (g) of this 51
section, or in the case of a municipal police department, in accordance 52
with the department's policy adopted by the department and based on 53
guidelines maintained pursuant to subsection (j) of this section, 54
concerning the use of body-worn recording equipment. 55
(2) Each police officer shall wear body-worn recording equipment on 56
such officer's outer-most garment and shall position such equipment 57
above the midline of such officer's torso when using such equipment. 58
(3) Body-worn recording equipment used pursuant to this section 59
shall conform to the minimal technical specifications approved 60
pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, except that a police officer may 61
use body-worn recording equipment that does not conform to the 62
minimal technical specifications approved pursuant to subsection (b) of 63
this section, if such equipment was purchased prior to January 1, 2016, 64
by the law enforcement unit employing such officer. 65
(4) Each law enforcement unit shall require usage of a dashboard 66
camera in each police patrol vehicle used by any police officer employed 67
by such unit in accordance with the unit's policy adopted by the unit 68
and based on guidelines maintained pursuant to subsection (j) of this 69
section, concerning dashboard cameras. 70
(d)