How cop cameras are addressed by ACLU, Florida law and others

By |2015-11-03T08:03:48-06:00November 3, 2015|Categories: crime records|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

An article today in The Tennessean outlines some of the conversation taking place about the use of body cameras by local law enforcement, with the city of Franklin's police chief saying she is waiting for state law to address usage before she rolls them out. “I believe that body cameras will become a basic piece of law enforcement work,” Franklin Police Chief Deborah Faulkner said. “But the first agencies that implement body cameras will create case law and I want to avoid that.” The newspaper reported that Faulkner urged lawmakers to look at an approach similar to Florida's, which adopted a statute last year exempting footage from the state's public records [...]