Policing technologies introduce a variety of privacy and surveillance concerns, in addition to the various values that are challenged by their use, including transparency, trust, safety, and equity. Body-worn cameras, adopted in many communities in response to calls for more police accountability, are highly divisive; different communities hold different perceptions of the technologies, often associated with transparency and appropriate handling of footage, as well as protections for witnesses and victims. This paper explores the contextual integrity of police body-camera footage and associated governance over that data, from the perspective of the integrated Governing Knowledge Commons and Contextual Integrity (GKC-CI) frameworks to assess fragmentation of perceptions, consensus formation, and discrepancies between community norms and practices or rules-on-the-books associated with video data gathered and used by police. Drawing on Reddit discussions from Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia, we conduct content and policy analysis, to examine three cases as independent contexts and in comparison. Results present various implications for policymakers and a deeper conceptual understanding of community opinion formation regarding these technologies.
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