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Criminal

Sep. 25, 2014

Privacy and police body-worn cameras

The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has turned a white hot light on the issue of equipping all police officers on patrol with body-worn cameras.

Gary Schons

Of Counsel
Best Best & Krieger LLP

Public Law

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San Diego , CA 92101

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Email: gary.schons@bbklaw.com

U San Diego School of Law

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By Gary W. Schons


The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has turned a white hot light on the issue of equipping all police officers on patrol with body-worn cameras, or BWCs. In the first 20 days after the shooting, the White House "We the People" petition website received more than 150,665 petitions for the so-called "Mike Brown Law" to require all state, county and local police to wear a camera while on patrol. This exceeds the thre...

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