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By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Body cams on cops a violation of privacy? San Jose Cops Will Wear Body Cameras on Yes, But, However. See AP story here. The product name is AXON. Arizona-based, publicly traded, Taser International is footing the initial cost for the experiment. The gear rings up at $1,700 per cop, plus a $99 per monthly fee per officer. That’s a heavy outlay if every officer has the equipment, but lawsuit payouts for wrongful death, incarceration or injury aren’t cheap either. It says that the ACLU claims that recording an interaction is an invasion of privacy. How? What is the privacy interest in what a cop sees? You don't know how many times I've wished that the police-citizen interaction was recorded. Either my client or the cop was lying...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).