Stanford CIS

Ferguson Improves Police Body Camera Policy, But Gaps Remain, Critics Say

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"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, said Ferguson’s updated policy is an improvement over the one it assessed for its study, which came from a 2014 document obtained by theSt. Louis Post Dispatch.

Yu still had several concerns about the new policy, including the city’s decision to allow officers to review footage before filing reports about contentious encounters and the lack of an explicit plan to delete footage after a certain period of time.

“It’s much more substantive than the initial version, but there are still significant gaps,” said Yu."