D.C. Can't Keep Police Body Camera Footage of Councilmember Trayon White Secret, Judge Rules

The District does not want you to see police body camera footage of a 2017 traffic stop and arrest of Councilmember Trayon White.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine argues in court documents that White's expectation of privacy outweighs the public's right to view the footage of an interaction between a sitting councilmember and a District police officer on a public street. The AG's office declined to comment on the pending lawsuit.

Mayor Muriel Bowser's office has weighed in as well. A letter from the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel denying a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Washington Post says that White has a "strong privacy interest in not being associated unwarrantedly with alleged criminal activity."

White said Friday that he has no problem with the District releasing the footage.

Read more: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/loose-lips/article/21040882/dc-cant-keep-police-body-camera-footage-of-councilmember-trayon-white-secret-judge-rules