body cameras

Effective July 1, 2022 all law enforcement agencies in Connecticut are required to have body cameras and in-car cameras.

Effective July 1, 2022 all law enforcement agencies in Connecticut are required to have body cameras and in-car cameras.

Effective July 1, 2022 all law enforcement agencies in Connecticut are required to have body cameras and in-car cameras.

In a move that West Hartford says is about accountability and transparency, all public-facing police officers began wearing body cameras on Monday. The cameras are about the size of a cell phone and weigh only a couple of pounds. They attached to the abdomen area to record all investigative actions by officers. They are electronic devices, West Hartford police say,…

West Hartford police officers began wearing body cameras on Monday.

Hartford has now rolled out 150 new body cameras, ensuring the entire police force will now wear them.

Police have said there is no footage showing the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. But Sam Aguiar, an attorney for Taylor’s family, filed a suit believing there is video footage that has not been seen. CK Hoffler, president of National Bar Association, discusses the suit.

After four months away from the Capitol, Connecticut’s state legislature is getting ready to gavel in a special session. Their first order of business was a public hearing on a police accountability bill Friday. The bill is one of four pieces of legislation lawmakers will take up in the weeks to come. Normally public hearings are conducted inside the...

The state legislature is preparing to head into a special session to discuss police accountability.

While the use of body cameras are widely considered key to police reform, NBCLX storyteller Noah Pransky explains that costs and privacy issues can inhibit how they are adopted by police departments.

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The call for body cameras follows a young man being shot and killed by Connecticut State Police in the city recently.

There are renewed calls for West Haven police to add body cameras. On Monday, community members demanded the West Haven City Council take action after the shooting and killing of a young man in the city last month. “Why do all of our surrounding towns have body cams and West Haven doesn’t?” said Carroll E. Brown of West Haven....

This comes three weeks after a deadly police shooting in the city involving Connecticut State Police.