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Body-worn cameras
Maybe your school has a film department, but the most prolific cinematographers on your college campus are probably the police.
Since the early 2010s, body-worn cameras (BWCs) have become more and more common in the United States. This holds true for law enforcement agencies on university and college campuses. These cameras are attached to officers’ uniforms (often the chest or shoulder, but sometimes head-mounted) and capture interactions between police and members of the public. While BWC programs are often pitched as an accountability measure to reduce police brutality, in practice these cameras are more often used to capture evidence later used in prosecutions.
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Fort Smith Times Record
An Arkansas state senator has proposed a bill that would broaden the definition of a public meeting, both in-person and electronic.
Senate Bill 208, if passed, would lower the number of city directors required to constitute a meeting, going against the Arkansas Supreme Court s 2019 decision in
Wade v. City of Fort Smith that three city directors and City Administrator Carl Geffken did not violate the law in a private email exchange.
The bill, sponsored by District 21 state Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, defines a meeting as the gathering of two or more members of a governing body to discuss matters, including through telephone or electronically. The bill applies to all governing bodies in Arkansas and public bodies supported by or using public funds except for grand juries.
It's been nearly 30 years since Melissa Witt was murdered in Fort Smith, but a retired police detective and an Arkansas woman are hoping to make a break in the case.