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ByEileenSullivan The Associated Press WASHINGTON A Seattle man was arrested in Jan- uary during a demonstra- tion to protest police vio- lence. Though he has yet to be charged with an of- fense, his arrest — cap- tured on police body-cam- era recordings, along with his full name, address, phone number and birth- date — are public records. The use of police body cameras, like those used in Seattle, is spreading to keep officers honest about using force against citi- zens. But how and when the public gets to see the footage is up for debate. Months after the arrest of Michael Moynihan, the 32-year old Seattle man, the Seattle Police Depart- ment said his case is un- der review. Moynihan said he supports police wearing body cameras, but his own experience shows the un- settling consequences. "That's a very danger- ous weapon that they have there," Moynihan said. Videos of police shoot- ings across the country have become critical to determining what hap- pened in situations that turn deadly. In some cases, strapping cigarette pack- size cameras to officers' uniforms has been framed as a way to curb police bru- tality and stem deteriorat- ing trust in law enforce- ment. It's not that simple. While the recordings may help get to the truth of an incident with police, they also record distraught vic- tims, grieving family mem- bers, people suffering from mental illness and citizens exercising their rights to free speech and civil dis- obedience. Cameras may solve one problem but cre- ate others. "Any policy that cate- gorically shields or opens up body-camera footage is probably wrong," said Jay Stanley, a senior policy an- alyst with the American Civil Liberties Union. The use of police body cameras is still in its in- fancy, with no official count for how many of the 18,000 state and local de- partments have turned to them. But dozens of agen- cies across the country are testing them, and many have plans to roll them out more broadly. Some existing laws that govern what information is released to the public are on the chopping block, as states try to strike the balance between a citi- zen's right to privacy and making officers answer for their actions. A policy to release all police-recorded videos could mean footage of the inside of a person's home or a hospital would be available. But if the policy is not to release footage in order to protect a person's privacy, that could mean a video of an officer shoot- ing someone would not be made public, defeating the main purpose of the use of these cameras. "What started as an effort to capture or pre- vent bad police behavior, I think now we're starting to see the realities of it cap- turing true human suffer- ing," Frank Straub, chief of the Spokane, Washington, Police Department, said earlier this year at a pol- icy forum on Capitol Hill. The solution is some- where in the middle. Some departments redact the faces of bystanders or those arrested, or blur a video so much that little is recognizable. Others won't release video if it's part of an ongoing investigation. Some policies allow of- ficers to turn their cam- eras on and off. Even com- pletely uncensored footage may not crystalize an in- cident because it's taken from one officer's physical position, often a moving one. This can create shaky footage and in some cases won't capture all details of a violent encounter. State laws vary about what the public can see. Existing recordings are covered under these laws, such as videos from cam- eras mounted inside pa- trol cars. But body cameras produce more footage than dashboard cameras — footage that can show offi- cers inside peoples' homes and other private places. PUBLIC RECORDS Policebodycamerasshow more than just the facts By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Repub- lican-led House cast largely symbolic votes on Friday against the Iran nuclear deal and sought to restrict President Barack Obama's authority to lift sanctions against Tehran, one day af- ter the Senate ensured that the administration can im- plement the accord without congressional interference. After three hours of hot- tempered debate, the House voted 269 to 162 to reject the deal; 25 Democrats broke with Obama to reg- ister their disapproval. The fate of the agreement onCapitolHill,however,was sealed on Thursday when Senate Democrats voted to uphold the accord with Iran, overcoming heavy GOP op- position to hand Obama a victory on his top foreign policy priority. The Senate action guaranteed that any legislation disapproving of the accord will never reach Obama's desk. Obama marked the end of House votes with a state- ment saying it is time to turn the page. "Now, we must turn to the critical work of imple- menting and verifying this deal so that Iran cannot pursue a nuclear weapon," the president said in a state- ment. "In doing so, we'll write the latest chapter of American leadership in the pursuit of a safer, more hopeful world." During the debate, Dem- ocrats argued that the agreement would stabilize the Mideast, stop Iran from rushing to develop a nuclear bomb and offer a chance to end the standoff with Iran diplomatically, while retain- ing a U.S. threat of military action. They claimed House Republicans used their op- position to the nuclear deal to take a partisan shot at the president. Republicans countered that the agreement's inspec- tion regime against Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, is weak. They said the deal will allow Iran to eventually possess a nuclear weapon and that the billions it will receive through sanctions relief will end up in the hands of terrorist groups that Tehran supports. 269 TO 162 VOTE House goes on record against Iran nuclear deal By Steve Peoples The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his second bid for the Repub- lican presidential nomina- tion on Friday, becoming the first major candidate of the 2016 campaign to give up on the White House. The longest-serving gov- ernor in Texas history told a group of conservative activ- ists in St. Louis that "some things have become clear" and he was suspending his campaign. "We have a tremendous field of candidates — prob- ably the greatest group of men and w o m e n , " Perry said. "I step aside knowing our party is in good hands, as long as we listen to the grassroots, listen to that cause of conservatism. If we do that, then our party will be in good hands." Dallas businessman and longtime Perry donor Roy Bailey said Friday that the former governor called him Thursday night and broke the news that he was plan- ning to leave the race. "He was very matter of fact, he was confident in his decision," Bailey said. "He hated it, because he's such a confident person, that that's what it came down to. He'll take a breather and jump back into life out of politics." Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who took the stage at the Eagle Fo- rum conference in St. Louis immediately after Perry an- nounced his exit, called on the crowd to pray for Perry's future success. "The only thing harder than to get into a race for something like president, is to make the decision to get out of the race," said Huck- abee, the runner-up for the GOP nomination in 2008. "And I hope that all of you will recognize that it was a very difficult decision. I've been there before." Four years after his first bid for the White House ended after disappointing finishes in the Iowa cau- cuses and New Hampshire primary, Perry this time couldn't even make it to the second debate night of the 2016 race. POLITICS Perry first to exit 2016 GOP race Perry SEATTLEPOLICEDEPARTMENT In this Seattle police body camera video, Seattle police officers move in to make an arrest during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in January 2015. By George Jahn and Karel Janicek The Associated Press VIENNA At least four countries Friday firmly re- jected a European Union plan to impose refugee quotas to ease a worsening migrant crisis that Germa- ny's foreign minister said was "probably the biggest challenge" in the history of the 28-nation bloc. Hungary, which along with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland said it would not support the pro- posal, threatened to crack down on the thousands of people streaming across its borders daily as they flee war and persecution. The stance by those Cen- tral European countries re- flected a hardening front against distributing at least someoftherefugeesamong them and was a sting- ing rebuff to German For- eign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who traveled to Prague to try to persuade them to reconsider. While the Czechs, Slo- vaks and Poles have been relatively unaffected by the influx, Hungary has faced growing criticism about its stance toward the asylum seekers. Other EU leaders and human rights groups accuse the government of gross mismanagement or serious negligence in hous- ing, feeding and process- ing the migrants travel- ing from the Balkans and through Hungary to West- ern Europe. Peter Bouckaert of Hu- man Rights Watch asserted Hungary was keeping mi- grantsandrefugees"inpens like animals, out in the sun without food and water." 28-NATION BLOC Migrant quota plan rebuffed by 4 European nations Advertisement IfthiswasyourService Directory ad customers would be reading it right now!! 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