Cleveland Police bodycam and dashcam video must be released within 7 days

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Cleveland Metropolis Council handed laws requiring the Director of Public Security to launch police physique and sprint cam movies inside seven days of incidents involving an officer’s use of lethal drive. That features movies from incidents the place the drive brought about severe bodily hurt.

The laws states that the “launched footage shall be from a minimum of three Metropolis recording units or, if the incident is recorded by fewer than three…, the launched footage shall be from all Metropolis recording units that recorded the incident. The launched footage shall start a minimum of 60 seconds previous to the incident or originally of the recording, whichever is shorter”, in accordance with Councilman Polensek.

The video might be launched by making it publicly obtainable on the Metropolis web site. Any further remaining video of the incident, redacted as per relevant state and federal legal guidelines, shall be launched inside 30 days.

The Director of Public Security, the Chief of Police, and the Director of Regulation usually are not required to launch footage of an incident if prohibited by a courtroom order or another authorized prohibition. (Ord. No. 694-2021)

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