General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 770
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 2208
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist. SEN. DUFF, 25th Dist. SEN. BYE, 5th Dist. SEN. CASSANO, 4th Dist. SEN. COLEMAN, 2nd Dist.			SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist. SEN. LEONE, 27th Dist. SEN. MOORE, 22nd Dist. SEN. SLOSSBERG, 14th Dist. SEN. WINFIELD, 10th Dist.

AN ACT CREATING A PILOT PROGRAM FOR POLICE BODY CAMERAS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to establish a one-year pilot program for the state to fund the purchase and monitor the use of cameras to be worn by members of a municipal police department in one large town, one medium town and one small town, study such usage to determine the effect on policing practices, develop state-wide standards concerning the use of such cameras, including, but not limited to, the circumstances when a camera should and should not be operational, and evaluate the relative efficacies of different available technologies.

Statement of Purpose:

To create a one-year pilot program for the use of cameras worn by municipal police officers and to study the outcomes for policing practices in order to establish future state-wide standards.