The sponsors of legislation that would have rewritten laws regarding citizen access to body cam and dashcam footage decided not to run their bill this year.
Police body camera footage from a shooting that left a 17-year-old dead inside a Knox County high school is likely to be kept confidential for a while, and it's possible some of it may be confidential forever based on state laws protecting juveniles and mandating confidentiality of some types of body camera footage. Anthony J. Thompson Jr., 17, was killed in the shooting. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has said that police were responding to reports of a student in the school possibly armed with a gun. A school resource officer was shot and injured, but it was from a bullet from a police weapon, the TBI has said. Knoxville [...]