The City of Greensboro is hosting a panel discussion on the use of body-worn cameras by police officers and the state's public records law. The Sept. 30 discussion will include civil rights, press and government lawyers.
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the City of Greensboro is hosting a panel discussion on the relationship between body-worn cameras and public records law. Greensboro police began wearing cameras last year. The city considers the footage collected by the cameras to be part of the personnel files of individual officers wearing them as well as part of the criminal investigative records in certain cases. Those two classifications allow the footage to be exempt from the public records law.
The panel includes Frayda Bluestein of the UNC School of Government, Christopher Brook of the ACLU, Mark Prak of the N.C. Broadcasters Association & N.C. Press Association, and Greensboro attorneys Scott Greenwood, Mosera Mills, Lewis Pitts and Jan Pritchett.
The program will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the city council chamber at 300 W. Washington Street. It will be telecast on the city’s cable access channel, the Greensboro Television Network. People can submit questions in advance at www.greensboro-nc.gov/LegalPanel or by tweeting to @greensborocity.
Read the city’s announcement here.