NYTimes: Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program

NYTimes: Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program by Ashley Southall:

A pilot program for police officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program. But the court-ordered pilot, the test for a rollout to all 23,000 city patrol officers by 2019, could be stalled this week by legal challenges from civil liberties lawyers and police labor unions. The lawyers said there were serious flaws in the draft policy that spells out when officers must use the cameras and how the resulting footage should be handled.

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