Florida could place limits on who can access police officer body camera videos under a bill passed by the Florida Senate. The Senate voted 36-2 for the bill that would keep confidential police videos that are shot inside a house, a health care facility or any place that a “reasonable person would expect to be […]
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 […]
Proposals Put Sunshine Law Under Siege – The Ledger
Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law is getting a little cloudy from three dozen bills that, if passed, would create exceptions ranging from not disclosing finalists for top state university and college jobs to exempting addresses and other information on all former and active members of the military. For average citizens, it means less information […]
