Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is looking to pass a bill that would require the NYPD to grant the city's police watchdog agency direct access to all footage captured by body-worn cameras.

Under the proposed law , the department would have to give the Civilian Complaint Review Board real-time access to the servers hosting the footage “comparable to that granted to the department’s internal affairs bureau.”

It further stipulates that remote users be able to search for specific footage by keywords, dates, locations and officers. Police advocates say the bill is an overreach that will deter officers from performing their duties and discourage recruitment.

The bill comes at a moment when the NYPD is under fire for failing to turn over footage of police encounters in a timely manner. An a

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