McCrory signs bill restricting view of police camera recordings

There were growing calls for McCrory to veto the legislation because it makes it difficult for the public – including people involved in a recorded police action – to see it. But the Republican governor said the law will strike a balance between improving public trust in the police and respecting the rights of officers.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article88985782.html

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Improving public trust by restricting access to a public record? Oh-kayee

MO is not "as pure as the wind driven snow" on this issue either.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/15/missouri-legislature-scales-back-public-access-to-/

There were growing calls for McCrory to veto the legislation because it makes it difficult for the public – including people involved in a recorded police action – to see it. But the Republican governor said the law will strike a balance between improving public trust in the police and respecting the rights of officers.

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OC for ME said:

Improving public trust by restricting access to a public record? Oh-kayee

MO is not "as pure as the wind driven snow" on this issue either.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/15/missouri-legislature-scales-back-public-access-to-/

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So LEOs have the right to be anonymous? Not in my book.

Recording made in MO public schools will be a closed record to protect the "children." A public school, where anyone with legitimate business can enter, is now a private setting? Sent this very question to both my elected reps, who voted for this absurd notion, to explain themselves...not a peep in return. My follow-up e-mail expressed my disappointment regarding their claimed support of government transparency as nothing but demagoguery.

Unfortunate not to have a link to the bill/law to review.

Perhaps the law only closes the door on FOIA related requests but not common law requests. Hard to say w/o seeing the text.

Never been a fan of police body cams ... this is one reason.

Add this and photoshop and video editors and you'll get made up evidence by the boatloads.

I hope members here have stopped convicting people when serving as a jurist ....

OK, I checked some information out....

text of law:

http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/HTML/H972v0.html

Allows people captured to access.

And law succeeds common law rights .... see

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_...78&q=open+record+common+law&hl=en&as_sdt=4,34

Overall bill is a bad law ... should outlaw body cameras, dash cams, security cams, etc entirely IMO