A 21-year-old Morris County woman is suing the Little Falls Police Department after it released unredacted bodycam footage of her arrest — video that showed her exposed breast and went on to rack up hundreds of thousands of views online.
The 17-page lawsuit, filed July 28 in Passaic County Superior Court, names the Township of Little Falls, its police department, a civilian records clerk and unnamed employees and supervisors. It alleges negligence, negligent supervision and violations of state laws protecting privacy and bodily integrity. At its center is a video that by the police department’s own internal review should never have been made public at all.
The Video Came From a Domestic Incident
Adrianna Smith of Mount Olive was arrested on Aug. 30, 2025, after a domestic violence incident involving her sister in Little Falls, and taken to police headquarters for processing. Body-worn camera video recorded during that processing captured an unintended exposure of her breast.
Months later, a content creator filed an Open Public Records Act request for the footage. The department released it uncensored. The video spread across social media, with at least one publicly available posting accumulating hundreds of thousands of views.
The Department’s Own Investigator Said It Should Never Have Gone Out
This is the detail that makes the case unusual. An internal investigator determined that because the arrest stemmed from a domestic incident, the footage was not a public record in the first place. New Jersey’s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991 shields records from domestic violence cases precisely to protect victims and families from further exposure…