"Your honor, the video in question is not an accurate depiction of my client's diction". Story out of Round Lake Park, Illinois:
Police officers in north suburban Round Lake Park have sued the village over their claims that body cameras invaded their privacy by secretly recording them in the bathroom and in other private moments.
The department started using the body cameras last September, and officers were instructed to activate them during traffic stops and other enforcement actions.
But the officers said in the suit that, unbeknownst to them, the cameras were actually shooting video "nonstop," in violation of the department's policy not to record private body parts or nonenforcement activities.
The suit claims that the cameras recorded thousands of "highly offensive and voyeuristic intrusions," including video that exposed officers' genitals and showed them engaging in "private and personal acts," including using the bathroom and changing their clothes.
In response to the federal lawsuit, Chief George Filenko said Friday that he had been unaware of the recordings until an officer discovered them. Filenko issued a statement saying the 10 officers who sued raised their allegations before all the facts are known.
In Round Lake Park, Officer Dominick Izzo, one of the officers suing, said he discovered while reviewing video from his camera in May that it had continued to record even when it was "off" or in sleep mode, according to the lawsuit, which claims the system at that point had video going back at least to February.
Upon realizing what had occurred, the suit states, the officers were "humiliated, embarrassed and greatly upset." Cont.
Story from - Chicago Tribune
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