Stanford CIS

Conundrum stalling Seattle’s body-cam policy

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"Because of the sensitivity of the issue, the city attorney didn’t want to talk about it on the record. Harlan Yu was open to discussing the issue, however. As a Principal at Upturn — a group studying the impact of technology on public policy — Yu is an expert on body-cam policies as departments across the nation consider how to use them.

“I am one of the authors of the National Body Worn Camera Policy Scorecard where we’ve compared and evaluated the body-worn camera policies from 50 major police departments from across the country, including Seattle’s policy,” Yu said."

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