Bodycams

The past month has seen a flurry of legislative activity by states seeking to regulate access to video from police…

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court regarding access to…

Open-government advocates warned District of Columbia officials last week that exemption of all police body-worn camera footage showing "assaults" will…

Although D.C. police officials said one of the aims of its police body camera program was to increase the police's…

This map shows current state legislation status and police department policies regarding public access to police worn body camera footage.

As states begin to implement laws requiring police officers to wear body cameras, lawmakers now struggle with the question of…

In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, the Reporters Committee argued that the controversial issue of access to body…

This testimony was submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the D.C. Council in response to a public roundtable on the…

Washington D.C.’s Mayor Bowser has largely upheld the refusal of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to produce body camera…

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has submitted an administrative appeal to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urging her…