The CCRB body-camera veto is still sitting in committee, nine months on
In January, members said they hoped to revive two vetoed bills. COPA passed again on Thursday. The bill giving police investigators direct access to body-camera footage has not moved.
Police oversight has been back in the news this month. On Oct. 12, Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the NYPD to review its use-of-force practices, the first such review in a decade, NY1 reported. He also announced $2.6 million more for the NYPD's Inspector General, City & State reported. On Oct. 19, he named new members to the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the city agency that investigates complaints against police officers.
The moves followed the case of Win Rozario, 19, who was killed by police at his Queens home in March 2024 during a mental health crisis. One officer the CCRB had recommended charges against retired before a disciplinary trial, and the NYPD failed to notify the board as required, City & State reported. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized for what she called "human error."
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Our records show one Council action on police oversight that has not moved all year.
What our records add
The veto that is still waiting. In December 2025, the Council passed Int. 1451-A, which would require the NYPD to give the CCRB direct access to officer body-worn camera footage. Mayor Eric Adams vetoed it. His veto message reached the new Council on Jan. 7 as M 0022-2026 and was referred to the Committee on Public Safety. Our records show no action on it since: 290 days as of Saturday. It is the oldest item pending before that committee. An override would take 34 votes.
What members said in January. At the Jan. 29 stated meeting, where the Council overrode 17 of Adams's vetoes, Lincoln Restler said he wished two more were on the list: the CCRB body-camera bill and COPA, the nonprofit first-chance-to-buy bill (video at 1:09:27). The Council did not take up either veto. Instead, a narrower COPA came back as a new bill and passed 38-9 on Thursday. We found no new body-camera access bill among the matters we track.
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What the CCRB told the Council. At the Public Safety Committee's March 18 budget hearing, the CCRB said it had made 3,010 requests for body-worn camera footage and received 2,430 positive responses covering 25,818 videos, and that the NYPD's average response time for unredacted video was eight calendar days (6:10:34).
Other pending police bills. Also waiting in the committee since Jan. 29: Int. 335, from Mercedes Narcisse, requiring the NYPD to report use-of-force incidents in which an officer displays or unholsters a weapon; and Int. 383, from Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, on the department's use of conducted electrical weapons. The committee has 98 matters pending, 73 of them for more than 180 days.
The committee. Oswald J. Feliz chairs. Members are Justin E. Sanchez, Ty Hankerson, Phil Wong, Joann Ariola, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Sandy Nurse, Chris Banks and Kamillah Hanks.
What's next
The committee meets next on Friday, Oct. 30, jointly with Governmental Operations, on the Office of Community Safety and a bill to create a Department of Community Safety (meeting page; our preview). The veto message is not on that agenda. The use-of-force review is expected to run for months, City Hall said, according to NY1.