Body Cameras

The suspect is identified as 27-year-old Kamren Brown, who had a long criminal history. The officer's bodycam showed the officer pleading with Brown to drop the weapon as Brown lifted the gun to his head and fired.

The Portage City Council is now moving forward, with outfitting Portage Public Safety Officers with body cameras. At their meeting Tuesday, the purchase of 50 body cameras and the software and storage equipment to run them was approved, at a cost of $226,366...

Under new legislation currently in Michigan’s House of Representatives, police body camera footage taken in your home or other private places would be mostly exempt from the Freedom of Information Act laws. According to an article in the Lansing State Journal, police camera footage in private place would not be considered a public record thus not attainable via FOIA requests...