City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0443

• File #: 14-0443
• Version: 0
• Name: Police Equipment - Audio-Video Recording Devices
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Vetoed by Mayor
• File created: 9/22/2014
• In control: Mayor
• Final action: 12/4/2014
• Title: Police Equipment - Audio-Video Recording Devices FOR the purpose of requiring all polices officers employed by the Baltimore City Police Department to be personally equipped with digital audio-and-video recording devices; and allowing a phased implementation of this requirement during the 1st year following the effective date of this Ordinance.
• Sponsors: Warren Branch, President Young, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Brandon M. Scott, Carl Stokes, Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, William "Pete" Welch, Rochelle Spector, Nick Mosby, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: Audio, Equipment, Police, Recording Devices, Video

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/4/2014	0	Mayor	Vetoed by Mayor	Fail
11/17/2014	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
11/10/2014	0	Public Safety Committee	Recommended Favorably
11/10/2014	0	City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
10/27/2014	0	Public Safety Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/25/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/25/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/25/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/22/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
9/22/2014	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

      * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

      THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

      INTRODUCTORY*

      CITY OF BALTIMORE

      COUNCIL BILL           

Introduced by:  Councilmember Branch                                                                                            

      A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning

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Police Equipment - Audio-Video Recording Devices

FOR the purpose of requiring all polices officers employed by the Baltimore City Police Department to be personally equipped with digital audio-and-video recording devices; and allowing a phased implementation of this requirement during the 1st year following the effective date of this Ordinance.

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BY adding

  Article 19 - Police Ordinances

  Section(s) 76-1, to be under the new subtitle,

     "Subtitle 76.  Police Equipment"

  Baltimore City Code

   (Edition 2000)

  SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

      Baltimore City Code

      Article 19.  Police Ordinances

      SUBTITLE 76.  POLICE EQUIPMENT

§ 76-1.  AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDING DEVICES REQUIRED.

EVERY POLICE OFFICER EMPLOYED BY THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT MUST BE PERSONALLY EQUIPPED WITH A  DIGITAL AUDIO-AND-VIDEO PORTABLE RECORDING DEVICE.

  SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That, notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance:

(a)      for the 1st year following the effective date of this Ordinance, the devices required by this Ordinance need be provided only to patrol officers newly hired during that year by the Baltimore City Police Department; but

(b)      beginning on the 1st anniversary of the effective date of this Ordinance, the devices required by this Ordinance must be provided to all police officers employed by the Baltimore City Police Department.      

  SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

  SECTION 4.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

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