Starting this summer, anyone who interacts with a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy on the job will be recorded on camera.
SRSO deputies will begin training this month on how to equip themselves with the agency’s first-ever body cameras. All SRSO patrol deputies are expected to start wearing the devices sometime within the next several months.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson and his staff reviewed body camera policies of other Florida sheriff s and Florida police departments to build their own Body Worn Cameras policy on how their agency will use its new tools.
“There were certain policies that we looked at and said, “Oh no, we’re not doing that,” Johnson told the News Journal. “There were certain policies where officers had the ability to get the video and do stuff to the videos.