Scripps News prevails in nearly two-year fight over body camera footage

Scripps News has prevailed in court after fighting for nearly two years to obtain body camera footage from a 2023 shooting in which police killed a teen robbery suspect in Lakewood, Colorado.

“That ruling/precedent sends a strong message that under the 2020 Act (Colorado’s Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act), police departments and sheriffs’ offices are not permitted to withhold body worn camera footage merely because a minor is depicted or because the surviving family members of a suspected criminal do not want it released,” said Steve Zansberg, the attorney who represented Scripps News in court.

The ruling is one of the first appellate court decisions enforcing a state statute enacted in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd that compels police to release footage of such incidents…

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