US DOJ law enforcement will be required to wear body cameras

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U.S. law-enforcement agents will be required to wear body cameras when serving search and arrest warrants, the Justice Department said on Monday, adding a measure of accountability already required of many state and local police departments.

Federal agents had previously been barred from wearing cameras, a policy that sometimes created tension during joint operations with state and local police.

The new directive, announced by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, comes as the Biden administration has shown sympathy to victims of police brutality in cases such as the murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody a year ago, a case that triggered street protests across the country.

Agents from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

Firearms & Explosives [ATF] will be required to wear cameras and activate them when serving an arrest warrant, executing a search warrant, or during other pre-planned operations.

Monaco ordered the chiefs of those services to submit a body camera policy for review within 30 days, including a plan to phase in implementation.

She also required federal agents be made aware of a policy implemented in October 2020 that permits state and local police to wear body cameras while serving in joint operations with the federal agencies.

Before then, state and local police were required to turn off their cameras while working on joint operations with their federal counterparts, even when their own policies required cameras.


Additionally, federal prosecutors were ordered to devise a training program to help make the recordings admissible as evidence in court.

In her memorandum announcing the new policy, Monaco cited the importance of "transparency and accountability."

"I am confident that these policies will continue to engender the trust and confidence of the American people in the work of the Department of Justice," Monaco said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-age ... 021-06-08/

Still a lot of law enforcement in other federal departments.
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Re: US DOJ law enforcement will be required to wear body cameras

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I thought it was already in effect, thought it would have been implemented under Obama. DHS which includes the Secret Service put out RFIs for body worn cameras in February. Biden nominated outsiders to run immigration and border agencies.

Ed Gonzalez the current sheriff of Harris County (Houston), TX is the nominee to head ICE and Chris Magnus the current police chief of Tucson, AZ is the nominee to head Customs and Border Protection. Gonzalez has a history of sparring with ICE and Magnus was openly critical of Trump's border policies. Magnus is openly gay.
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Just make it, if you are employed as any Federal Agency Law Enforcement that carries any weapon then you will be required to have and use a body camera when carrying out your duties except for those engaged undercover positions. The Secret Service also will be included.
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TrueTexan wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:56 am Just make it, if you are employed as any Federal Agency Law Enforcement that carries any weapon then you will be required to have and use a body camera when carrying out your duties except for those engaged undercover positions. The Secret Service also will be included.
That would include every cabinet department because they all have armed security to protect officials and many independent agencies like the US Postal Service (postal inspectors).
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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