# Craighead County Body-Worn Camera Policy Policy 600, `Use of Body Worn Cameras (BWC)`, is a five-page directive implemented, revised, and reviewed on 2021-01-01 under Sheriff [[Marty Boyd]] (`600 Use of Body Worn Cameras.pdf`, p. 1). It defines operational rules and retention categories but does not identify the camera model, storage vendor, or platform configuration. ## Activation and continuity The policy requires activation for official law-enforcement activity and lists calls for service with citizen contact, traffic stops, transports, investigative stops, foot pursuits, arrests/searches/seizures, consensual encounters, statements, Miranda warnings, and related events (p. 2). It then states: > `Officers are prohibited from turning off the BWC during any citizen contact or law enforcement event unless otherwise authorized by this policy, and Officers shall not erase, alter, modify or tamper with BWC recordings.` (`600 Use of Body Worn Cameras.pdf`, p. 3.) ## Privacy rules The policy identifies circumstances in which BWC should not be activated, including breaks, personal activity, non-law-enforcement contact, and locations such as restrooms or locker rooms where privacy is expected (p. 3). For a consensual residential entry, the officer must disclose the activated recorder and request permission to continue. If the resident declines interior recording, the officer documents the request and turns off the device, subject to reactivation if exigent circumstances outweigh the privacy concern (p. 3). ## Storage, retention, and disclosure - Non-evidentiary files are retained for a period directed by the Sheriff or designee, but not less than any period required by Arkansas FOIA or a related court decision (p. 4). - Evidentiary criminal/civil records are handled under evidence rules; civil records are held at least three years or until the matter and appeal time are exhausted (p. 4). - `"All video and audio files are subject to open records request as allowed by Arkansas law"` (p. 4). - `"Stored media shall not be kept longer than 60 days without written record of a citizen complaint or the subject of any internal investigation being performed related to an incident involving the stored media"` (p. 4). - A recording used in discipline resulting in suspension or termination is held for at least three years after the disciplinary action is complete (p. 4). - Prosecutorial recordings remain until complete adjudication; possible Brady material must be preserved and supplied to the prosecutor (pp. 4-5). The 60-day sentence must be read with the longer evidentiary, civil, disciplinary, prosecutorial, complaint, and internal-investigation categories on the same pages; it is not a universal 60-day deletion rule. ## Supervisory review Uniform Sergeants must review a random BWC sample quarterly for each supervised officer and document the review and resulting supervisory action (`600 Use of Body Worn Cameras.pdf`, p. 4, `"review a random sample of BWC recordings quarterly for each officer supervised"`). The final production contains no completed quarterly-review records. ## Relationship to the inventory The earlier inventory lists 46 Samsung Z Flip phones under the title `Bodyworn Camera- Cellphone Inventory` ([[Craighead County Bodyworn Camera Cellphone Inventory]]). Policy 600 defines BWC functionally as a compact camera system worn by an officer (p. 1), but it does not identify those 46 phones or establish how each was configured, assigned, worn, or used. ## Open questions - The current policy version, device models, storage platform, retention configuration, and audit/export capability. - Completed quarterly review records and any system-generated deletion or access audit retained within the request period. - The device-level relationship between Policy 600 and the produced phone inventory.