Where: California
What: AB 1215 (2019 | CA)
How did the Legislature split the difference to approve cameras and disapprove facial recognition?
- Approving law enforcement body cameras
- Excepting and prohibiting cameras with facial recognition
- Prohibiting using footage from body cameras for later use by facial recognition software
What arguments support prohibiting facial recognition?
- Privacy of California residents
- Need to encourage trust in communities
- Support of the transparency that cameras provide law enforcement
- Avoiding the police being seen as a tool of surveillance
Other states did the same? Yes, Oregon
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