Bad legislation made marginally better is still bad legislation. The House should make significant changes today to a bill that would keep too many videos from police body cameras secret. As it stands, the legislation would undercut the very purpose of body cameras, creating more suspicion about police hiding incidents of excessive force rather than […]
Scrap Florida legislation shielding many police body camera videos – Florida Society of News Editors
Legislation currently under debate in Florida’s Senate provides overly broad exemptions to the public release of videos captured by law enforcement body cameras. That effectively undermines the stated intention of the cameras — to increase transparency and public trust in officers. Video also protects law enforcement from false accusations of abuse and misconduct, and the […]
Body-cam folly – Miami Herald
Sunday’s editorial, Don’t shut the courthouse door, told of the dogged battles some Miamians are waging to pry loose public information that they are convinced will tell the real story about whether the city of Miami has been an honest player in a questionable development deal on Watson Island. And the city of Miami, tellingly […]
