S.F. Votes In Policy on Police Body Cameras

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The decision of the Police Commission, although not officially final, will send the body camera policy to the Department of Human Resources and a police union for review, after which it will be returned to the commission for final adoption. Photo courtesy of Mission Local

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local
The San Francisco Police Commission voted today to allow police officers to view footage from their body cameras before writing their incident reports unless the officer is the subject of an investigation or the footage captures an officer-involved shooting or an in-custody death.

In those cases, the police chief or someone of his choosing must decide whether to allow the officer to review his or her footage before making a report. Body cameras will be rolled out sometime in 2016, but a date has not yet been chosen.

Read the complete story at Mission Local. 
 

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