The city of Cleveland doesn't think it's necessary to require police officers to wear body cameras while working off-duty security details, and has asked a federal judge to sign off on a new policy that says as much.
May 9, 2017
The federal judge overseeing Seattle police reforms has approved the Police Department’s long-awaited body-camera proposal, resolving an issue that had put the plan on hold.
May 5, 2017
“The time for permanent use of on-officer cameras by all SPD officers is now,” the monitor, Merrick Bobb, writes in the fifth semiannual report since the city entered into a 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department to curtail excessive force and biased policing.
June 16, 2015
The Los Angeles Police Department will make the case that it no longer
requires federal oversight, during a June 15 hearing in front of U.S.
District Court Judge Gary Feess, the Los Angeles Times reports.
June 8, 2009