Two bills moving through the Florida Legislature encourage local law enforcement agencies to add body cameras to their uniforms, a practice that would protect both police officers and the public they serve. But the bills are not identical and the wrong version — the one that would make it extremely difficult for people to ever […]
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 […]
Senate passes bill to keep police body cam video from public view – The Tampa Tribune
UPDATED THURSDAY: The House has placed the bill on its “special order” calendar for consideration Friday. The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a measure creating a public records exemption for police body camera videos. With little debate, the bill (SB 248) was approved 36-2. Sens. Dwight Bullard, a Miami Democrat, and Dorothy Hukill, Port […]
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