"Finding that the need for police scrutiny outweighs officer privacy, a New York appeals court rejected Tuesday a challenge from the city’s largest police union that would have blocked public access to body-cam footage of three police-related shootings. Representing roughly 36,000 [police] officers, the PBA [Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association] hired one of President Donald Trump’s personal law firms for the fight...“To hold otherwise would defeat the purpose of the body-worn-camera program to promote increased transparency and public accountability,” a three-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division’s First Department unanimously found. The Washington-based advocacy group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press led more than a dozen media organizations in... the fight..."
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