More than a month after the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets, officials have not released body- or dash-camera footage. The video could help reveal...
for more than an hour. News organizations were criticized for publishing the footage days before edited video was expected to be released after being shown to victims’ families.
“When they act appropriately, we need to thank them and celebrate that. But if they haven’t, then we need to admit it and deal with it,” Baggett said. “I’m not saying that the police officer in this case acted inappropriately. I have no way of knowing, because they’re not letting us know.”It’s impossible to know what the Allen footage shows, Baggett said.
Governmental bodies in Texas must submit materials and arguments to the attorney general’s office when they wish to withhold records, and the office mustAllen officials argue body- and dash-camera footage from May 6 contains “highly intimate or embarrassing” information about private affairs that are highly objectionable and “of no legitimate interest to the public.”
Shannon said the law is “designed to protect the living and the innocent and it has been misused in recent years on a wide scale by law enforcement to try to withhold records that the public has a right to see.”Baggett said closing the loophole would “be a huge help to us in overcoming resistance” from officials filling public-records requests but probably would not apply to the Allen shooting because it happened before the bill would be enacted.
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