Changes could be coming to Indiana's new police body camera footage law – even though it is only just now taking effect.
Lawmakers spent months over the last year negotiating the fine details of a law governing how and when police body camera footage should be released. The final product requires police to prove why video should not be released, rather than put the burden of proof on the public.
It was a compromise supported by both the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police and the Hoosier Press Association.
But Clarksville Police Chief Mark Palmer says his department will discontinue its body camera program because of the law.
Palmer says the law lets the, in his words, "noisy neighbor" view the footage. Bill author Sen. Rod Bray, R-Martinsville, says he's heard that argument before.
"That's just a philosophical position that each agency might have and I think that, in particular, will just have to play out," Palmer says.
Bray says if more departments discontinue their body cam programs, he'll want the legislature to consider changes to the law.