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Body Cameras: Balancing Privacy With Police Accountability

Photo: A camera pinned on a police uniform
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Police body cameras are slowly catching on in North Carolina as a way to hold both police and civilians accountable for their actions. But body cameras also raise questions about the privacy of the people they record.

Should that footage be public record? And will body cameras be the answer for communities that have lost trust in their police force?

Host Frank Stasio talks with Jeff Welty, professor of public law and government at UNC-Chapel Hill, about the benefits and concernsof using body cameras.

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Will Michaels is WUNC's Weekend Host and Reporter.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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