News-Sentinel praises delay on body camera legislation
The Knoxville News-Sentinel in a Sunday editorial praises a House committee's decision to delay body camera legislation and wait for a study by the Advisory Committee on Open Government: The state Legislature wisely has decided to take a closer look at police body cams before imposing secrecy on the videos they produce. Legislation proposed by Rep. Glen Casada, the Republican Caucus chairman from Franklin, would have kept all footage away from the public for at least a year while the issue was being studied. The moratorium was needed, Casada said, to protect the privacy of bystanders who might be caught on camera. The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government agreed that [...]