Right now, any person can request copies of police body camera video, recorded by Fort Myers or Cape Coral officers. That is, unless the video is part of an ongoing criminal investigation, the same as any public record. But a new bill, passed in the Florida Senate this week, would restrict access to body cam videos […]
Editorial: Florida House should improve police body camera bill – Tampa Bay Times
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 […]
Editorial: Cops and cameras – The Gainesville Sun
We live in an age when everything we do can be recorded and played back repeatedly. That lesson was brought home by the horrific cellphone video of South Carolina resident Walter Scott being shot to death while fleeing from a police officer. The video undoubtedly led to the officer being charged with murder. Locally, we […]
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