2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 7 - Municipalities
Chapter 104 - Municipal Police and Fire Protection
Section 7-277b - Reimbursement for body-worn recording equipment and data storage devices or services.

(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to provide grants-in-aid to reimburse each municipality for the costs associated with the purchase by such municipality of body-worn recording equipment for use by the sworn members of such municipality’s police department and digital data storage devices or services, provided such equipment and device or service conforms to the minimal technical specifications approved pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-6d. Any such municipality may apply for such grants-in-aid to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management in such manner as prescribed by said secretary. Such grants-in-aid shall be distributed as provided in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) (1) (A) Any municipality that purchased such body-worn recording equipment and digital data storage devices or services during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, shall be reimbursed for up to one hundred per cent of the costs associated with such purchases, provided the costs of such digital data storage services shall not be reimbursed for a period of service that is longer than one year, and provided further that such body-worn recording equipment is purchased in sufficient quantity to ensure that each sworn member of such municipality’s police department is supplied with such equipment while interacting with the public in such sworn member’s law enforcement capacity.

(B) Any municipality that purchased such body-worn recording equipment or digital data storage devices or services on or after January 1, 2012, but prior to July 1, 2016, shall be reimbursed for costs associated with such purchases, but not in an amount to exceed the amount of grant-in-aid such municipality would have received under subparagraph (A) of this subdivision if such purchases had been made in accordance with said subparagraph (A).

(C) Any municipality that was reimbursed under subparagraph (B) of this subdivision for body-worn recording equipment and that purchased additional body-worn recording equipment during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, shall be reimbursed for up to one hundred per cent of the costs associated with such purchases, provided such equipment is purchased in sufficient quantity to ensure that each sworn member of such municipality’s police department is supplied with such equipment while interacting with the public in such sworn member’s law enforcement capacity.

(2) Any municipality that was not reimbursed under subdivision (1) of this subsection and that purchased such body-worn recording equipment and digital data storage devices or services during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, shall be reimbursed for up to fifty per cent of the costs associated with such purchases, provided the costs of such digital data storage services shall not be reimbursed for a period of service that is longer than one year.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-4, S. 8.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-4 effective January 1, 2016.