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GA HB1185
Bill
Status
Introduced
6/15/2020
Primary Sponsor
Erick Allen
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AI Summary
- Beginning July 1, 2021, all state, county, and local law enforcement agencies must equip peace officers whose primary duties include traffic stops or emergency dispatch responses with body cameras that record audio and video of all on-duty activities
- The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council and the Georgia Public Safety Training Center must establish guidelines covering minimum technical standards, secure data retention, and training for body camera use
- Body cameras must not be activated during internal law enforcement communications, encounters with undercover operatives or confidential informants, personal business, medical/psychological examinations, or in mental/medical health facilities unless recording a criminal suspect
- Audio and video recordings are generally available for public disclosure, but recordings involving victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, homicide, suicide, or fatal accidents are exempt when disclosure would invade personal privacy and require a court order for release
- If a recording shows a peace officer manually stopped the body camera during activity required to be recorded, a rebuttable presumption of misconduct applies; agencies failing to comply face withholding of state or state-administered federal funding
Legislative Description
Law enforcement officers and agencies; release of certain audio and video recordings from peace officer body cameras; provide
Last Action
House Second Readers
6/17/2020
Full Bill Text
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