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Pleasanton Police Department Pleasanton PD Policy Manual Body Worn Camera Systems 450.5 OPERATION While on duty, members are required to keep the BWCS in the "ON" position and in "buffering mode" except for the following circumstances: • When out of service during an authorized break. • When inside police department, except where a member is in contact with a member of the public and the contact appears to be escalating to an adversarial situation or conducting investigative activities involving contact with the public (i.e. interviewing victims and/or witnesses). • While using the restroom. While "buffering mode" is not actively recording, members are advised that the BWCS will capture 30 seconds of video preceding the activation of the BWCS. 450.6 PRIVACY AND OWNERSHIP EXPECTATION All recordings made by members acting in the course and scope of their duties as a City employee shall remain the property of the Department regardless of whether those recordings were made with department -issued or authorized personally -owned recorders. Members have no expectation of privacy or ownership interest in any such recordings. 450.7 NON -CRIMINAL MATTER Whenever members operating BWCS reasonably believe that a recorded contact may be of benefit in a non -criminal matter (i.e., a hostile contact), the officer or supervisor may copy the recorded media onto a disk and shall book the copy into evidence for safekeeping in addition to uploading the file into the database. 450.8 REVIEW OF RECORDED FILES Although the data captured by the BWCS is not considered Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI), it shall be treated in the same manner as CORI data. All access to the Evidence.com is logged and subject to audit at any time. Members seeking to review BWCS recordings shall log the reason for access in the "Notes" section (access to automatically time/date stamped and records each access by name). Access to the data from the system is permitted on a right to know, need to know basis pursuant to (CCR, Title 11, Division 1, Chapter 7, Article 1, Section 702). Members may view the audio/video data captured on their BWCS under the following circumstances: a) For the purpose of completing a criminal investigation and preparing reports. b) Prior to or during preparation for testifying in any deposition, before any court or administrative agency (i.e., DMV, ABC) or for courtroom presentation pursuant to direction of the District Attorney or Department legal counsel or where authorized by the Supervisor. c) For individual training purposes, with the authorization of a supervisor, or by an FTO when providing training to a Trainee. Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2020/09/22, All Rights Reserved. Body Worn Camera Systems - 415 Published with permission by Pleasanton Police Department