Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary This bill requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the body cameras by its law enforcement officers in compliance with this bill. Law enforcement officers must receive a copy of the written policy and training in the use of body cameras before using such cameras. The training must include, at a minimum, instruction on this bill and the agency's written policy. WRITTEN POLICY This bill requires a written policy adopted by a law enforcement agency as described above to include, at a minimum, guidelines on the use of body cameras by law enforcement officers to meet all of the following objectives: Ensure that body cameras are worn by law enforcement officers in a location and manner that maximizes the camera's ability to capture video footage of the officer's activities. Provide standards for when a law enforcement officer must enable and disable recording functions of the body camera, including a requirement that (i) a law enforcement officer activate a body camera whenever responding to a call for service; (ii) body cameras be activated at the initiation of a law enforcement or investigative encounter between a law enforcement officer and a member of the public, except when there is an immediate threat to the officer's or another's life or safety that makes activating the body camera impossible or dangerous; (iii) in situations in which activating a body camera is impossible or dangerous, a law enforcement officer must activate the camera at the first reasonable opportunity to do so; (iv) a law enforcement officer must not deactivate a body camera until the encounter between a law enforcement officer and a member of the public has fully concluded and the law enforcement officer leaves the scene; and (v) a law enforcement off
