New NC law makes police cam footage off limits to public

[KamaAina]

http://abc11.com/politics/new-law-makes-police-cam-footage-off-limits-to-public/1422569/

Motivated by the controversial police officer-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the terror in Texas that unfolded after a Black Lives Matter march, Gov. Pat McCrory signed the Body Cam bill into law.

McCrory signed House Bill 972 on Monday afternoon.

The new law details who can view and obtain footage from body and dashboard camera. The footage is no longer public record.

If you are in the video, either your image or your audio, you can request the file. The request could be denied, however, and then you'll have to take the fight to Superior Court.

[villager]

1. "...the bill, however, *adds* cameras in bathrooms, to make sure you're not transgendered." nt

[KamaAina]

2. It does not! But well played!

[Igel]

3. "No longer" is a stretch.

The entire set of laws are new. This, if I remember correctly, revises a few days' worth of records to "no longer" public.

And it's not unreasonable. Cops burst in on a rapist doing the nasty with his victim, do you really want that woman's rape scene to be accessible to anybody who requests it? How about when the cops are riding with her to the hospital? At the hospital?

We like seeing shocking video, but, really, it's not all about what makes us gasp in shock and feel outraged. People should have some control over their privacy. After all, privacy as a Constitutional right is the underlying premise of Roe v Wade and striking down a lot of sex-related laws (the "keep the government out of our bedroom" sort of demands).