Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities

This bill requires licensed residential facilities serving developmentally disabled children (including group homes, residential schools, and day programs) to install surveillance cameras with sound in all public common areas like living rooms, dining areas, hallways, classrooms, and time-out rooms. It also permits cameras in single-occupancy bedrooms of children age 13 or younger only with parental consent. Facilities failing to comply face daily fines of $1,000. The law directly affects providers operating under the Office of Mental Hygiene or Children and Family Services.