Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in North Carolina

Post by ende » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 5:14 AM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #28

1_2__3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Requests can be denied to protect a person’s safety or reputation, or if the recording is part of an active investigation. As soon as there's a single subjective criteria by which footage can be denied, virtually all footage will be, period, the end. The "reputation" and "active investigation" parts make any concessions to the public completely and utterly worthless.

That's a strong statement, mostly because there's things implied in what you said that are not necessary to held true. For example, there's no reason we can't have a distinction between public release of a video, and allowing charged/affected parties (or their next of kin!) and their counsel to view the video privately at the police station for free (but restricted from recording). I think that would clear up the vas…