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Board to seek police briefing on SRO body-camera policy amid privacy questions
Summary
Committee discussed a police draft policy for SRO body-worn cameras, raising questions about activation, storage, public-records access and notification; members asked Deputy Chief Mike Maloney to brief the policy committee May 5 and the full board May 26 with a draft MOA and FAQ.
The policy committee discussed a police department draft on body-worn cameras for school resource officers and agreed to seek more detail about activation, storage and records-retention practices before adopting district language.
Members stressed they did not want body cameras to be implemented without public notice. "I wouldn't want the body cameras to be a thing that just suddenly happened overnight without students being notified," one committee member said, urging that any effective date allow schools to inform students and staff.
Questions included how "sleep mode" is activated, whether officers must manually turn cameras on, how footage is stored and who may access or delete recordings. Committee members raised the possibility that footage could be subject to public-records requests and asked whether the police department's proposed procedures and a proposed memorandum of agreement (MOA) could be shared in advance.
Staff said Deputy Chief Mike Maloney supplied the original draft and recommended that Maloney or a designee attend the May 5 policy meeting to answer technical and records questions, and appear again at the May 26 board meeting with a proposed MOA and an FAQ for parents and staff. The committee directed staff to request a draft MOA and any legal review and to include an FAQ in the board packet so the public could review materials before the full-board discussion.
