A local legislator has filed a bill that would allow videos captured by police body camera to be withheld from the public. Officials from Greensboro and other cities have asked legislators to set some policies regarding when the videos can be released.
Republican State Rep. John Faircloth of Guilford County filed a bill this week. It would make videos captured by law enforcement body and dashboard cameras one of the records police departments may shield from public inspection.
If the bill becomes law, people wouldn't have a guaranteed right to review police body camera videos. Greensboro officials want residents to have access to video footage of themselves.
Greensboro was one of the first cities in the country to outfit all its patrol officers with the gear.
Faircloth is also co-sponsoring a bill that calls for two state Justice Department commissions to study the use of body cameras.
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