# FCSO Body Worn Camera Policy 102 FCSO's body-worn-camera policy, Policy Number 102. The document carries two effective dates on its face: the page header reads "Effective Date: 02/15/2022" while the policy block reads "Effective Date: 02/15/2023" — consistent with a 2023 revision retaining the 2022 header, though the document does not say so. ## Key provisions (verbatim anchors) - **Administration:** "BWC IT Coordinator(s): The coordinator program administrator for digital evidence storage and camera system with full access to user rights" (p. 1); supervisors "will conduct audits to ensure employees are in compliance with department policy and recording/tagging protocols" (p. 3). - **Recording scope:** "Recordings shall be incident-specific and deputies shall not record their entire shift" (p. 4); activation required for enforcement-related contacts, searches under warrant/consent/probable cause, and suspect interviews; "BWC activation is not required by specialty teams such as the Special Response Team and the Crisis Negotiation Team" (p. 5). - **Surveillance clause:** "Investigators/deputies may utilize the BWC for surveillance of a suspect or a location where a suspect may be present" (p. 5) — the policy expressly authorizes the camera as a surveillance instrument beyond encounter recording. - **Private residences:** "when deputies are lawfully present in a home (warrant, consent, or exigent circumstances) in the course of official duties, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy" (p. 5). - **Retention (§ R):** "Recordings of no evidentiary, administrative, or training value shall be purged after thirty (30) days"; evidentiary recordings retained with case evidence; "Recordings of use of force encounters shall be retained for twelve (12) months"; complaint-related recordings retained until resolution; civil-claim recordings held under litigation holds. - **Integrity:** no alteration/deletion; public release "prohibited unless approved by the Sheriff or his designee"; personal recording devices barred from capturing digital evidence. ## Key takeaways - The policy is vendor-neutral on its face (no Motorola/WatchGuard product names appear in the reviewed provisions); the hardware context comes from [[FCSO WatchGuard Motorola Contract K-22-077]]. - Deletion authority, audit cadence, and audit-record retention are not specified in the reviewed text — retained audit records were requested and none were produced. ## Cross-references - [[Faulkner County Sheriff's Office]] · [[FCSO BWC Federal Award Chain 15PBJA-21-GG-04455-BWCX]] ## Open questions / follow-ups - The 2022/2023 effective-date discrepancy; whether a signed adoption page exists; and whether supervisor "audits" generate retained records responsive to the audit category.