{"id":18529,"date":"2015-08-21T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18529"},"modified":"2015-08-21T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:23:31","slug":"techdirt-dc-mayor-reverses-course-on-body-cam-footage-opens-up-recordings-to-citizens-and-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18529","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: DC Mayor Reverses Course On Body Cam Footage, Opens Up Recordings To Citizens And Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20150817\/11135331982\/dc-mayor-reverses-course-body-cam-footage-opens-up-recordings-to-citizens-researchers.shtml\">DC Mayor Reverses Course On Body Cam Footage, Opens Up Recordings To Citizens And Researchers<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in April of this year, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser sided with the city&#8217;s law enforcement against transparency and accountability. The mayor promised to outfit officers with body cams in the wake of several, high-profile police-involved shootings. But two weeks after this promise in her State of the District speech, Bowser tucked a provision into a budget bill that would exempt the footage from public records requests. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: DC Mayor Reverses Course On Body Cam Footage, Opens Up Recordings To Citizens And Researchers by Tim Cushing: Back in April of this year, Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser sided with the city&#8217;s law enforcement against transparency and accountability. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18530,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions\/18530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}