This webinar discusses how agencies can best manage and respond to the media and community after a crisis or high profile event that involves deliberate or inadvertent release of video footage. Without pre-thought and pre-planning regarding how to manage the release of video footage, a police agency can experience erosion of public community relations and perhaps violence.
This map shows the current status of state legislation and police department policies regarding public access to police body-worn cameras (“bodycams” or “BWCs”) around the United States under public records laws. This information is collated by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and is updated regularly.
For more information and to view the map, click here.
Body-worn cameras are recording devices police officers wear as part of their uniforms to document what they see as they perform their duties.
