Mike Malloy - North Carolina Bans Public Access To Police Dash Cams

[hschulein]

What good are police body cameras, or police car dash cams, if the footage they record is off limits to the public? That question might best be posed to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who yesterday signed into law a bill making that footage inaccessible to the general public, including everyday citizens who were recorded in the footage and might need it to prove police misbehavior. Despite widespread outcry, including protests and submission of a petition signed by more than 3,000 people, House Bill 972 received little opposition in the Senate, where it passed by a vote of 48 to 2 before the governor gave final approval.

The new law is particularly controversial in the aftermath of recent police murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both of which inspired mass outrage thanks to video documentation. Not only does it remove police body cam and dash cam footage from the public record, it lets the cops decide if the footage will ever be seen.

Full story: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/north-carolina-bans-public-access-police-dash-cams

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[Hoyt]

1. Don't like the NC Gubnor, but from what I've read, the person in the police video and

their representative (ie, attorney) get access automatically, as do people like prosecutors. So you could still use the video for prosecuting a policeperson who beat you.

But your neighbor can't go look at the video of you getting busted for DUI, or a badly beaten women after a rape.

If what I've read is true, I just don't see the problem with this. In fact, open public records is an argument some cities have used to refuse cameras, saying anyone can access anyone being stopped, questioned, arrested, etc.,by police.

Heck, if the police came to your house by mistake, or whatever, would you want any jerk to have access to the video public record.

[King_Klonopin]

2. I posted this reply on a thread last week:

Will the NRA and Republicans find a way to stop people from shooting videos on their iphones ?

Make it a crime to "shoot" video of law enforcement officers in the act of "subduing a criminal"

[link:www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7988957|

I was not being facetious then, and I am not being facetious now. If you want to keep the legalized
oppression machinery rolling, you can't allow videos to be made available as evidence.

They want a one-way street -- to be able to use their video footage to protect themselves but not allow
the public citizen to use it to protect himself. Gotta love fascism !