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21 Dec, 2016

Ohio Supreme Court finds delayed release of body camera footage “reasonable”

By |2016-12-21T09:49:04-06:00December 21, 2016|Categories: crime records|Tags: , |0 Comments

The Ohio Supreme Court, which recently ruled that not all police records fall under the state's investigatory exemption, ruled this week in a separate case about body camera footage in a police shooting. The court found that the district attorney's release of body camera footage after the indictment of a police officer was reasonable. In all, the district attorney withheld the body camera footage for six business days. Read the ruling. From Cleveland.com: Hamilton County officials were within the law to withhold body camera footage for six business days after a University of Cincinnati police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday. But [...]

13 Dec, 2016

Ohio Supreme Court rules dash cam videos are public records

By |2016-12-13T10:44:23-06:00December 13, 2016|Categories: crime records|Tags: , , |0 Comments

In ruling that rejects a blanket investigatory exemption for police records, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week that dash cam video is in general a public record, subject to redactions. The ruling has no legal effect in Tennessee, but is relevant because it deals with some of the same legal issues that have arisen in disputes with police here about what should be available to the public under the Tennessee Public Records Act. Some police departments refuse to release incident reports, saying they are part of the investigatory file. Currently, access to body cam footage is under study. In Ohio, the Cincinnati Inquirer in 2015 requested dash cam video [...]

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