The Police CAMERA Act of 2024 creates a federal grant program to help state and local law enforcement agencies purchase body-worn cameras and establish secure systems for storing video data. The bill aims to reduce excessive force, improve police accountability and transparency, and strengthen evidence collection by providing funding to police departments, counties, states, and tribal governments. Agencies receiving grants must develop public policies on camera use, protect privacy rights, restrict facial recognition technology to serious crimes with judicial approval, and report statistics on use of force incidents broken down by race and other demographics. The federal government would cover up to 75 percent of program costs with a two-year grant period, and the bill authorizes $30 million annually for fiscal years 2021 and 2023. Recipients must also comply with data security requirements and allow access to footage for criminal investigations, civil rights complaints, and prosecution while restricting transfer of recordings to other agencies without proper justification.
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