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Officials are keeping video of a fatal police shooting of a black man from the public in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of what open records advocates consider a disturbing trend nationally about police transparency.
Amid street riots over Tuesday’s shooting death of Keith Scott, 43, Charlotte police are promising an aboveboard investigation, but Police Chief Kerr Putney said the police body camera video will not be made available at this time, except to show it to Scott’s family.
Under current law, the Charlotte police have the discretion to release the video. However a state law coming into effect on October 1 will set new restrictions, establishing that such videos are not public record and requiring a court order be released.
Critics say that as more police departments across the country adopt body cameras, more laws are being implemented that make it increasingly difficult for the public to see the video they shoot.
A lawyer for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says the trend is “incredibly disturbing” because the proliferation of police body cameras was meant to improve transparency in the wake of public outcry across the country when police have used deadly force against black men.
“Pretty much every state to adopt legislation so far has done so in a manner that further limits public access to body cam videos. If nobody gets to see the video except for the police, then it’s not doing the public a whole lot of good,” said Adam Marshall, staff attorney for the committee.
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As Charlotte Riots Critics Fear Law Will Conceal|Newsclik
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