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After discussion at Board meetings, the Free Press reported this:

Detroit police oversight board stripped of direct access to bodycam footage

Andrea Sahouri
Detroit Free Press
June 5, 2026, 6:08 a.m. ET

Detroit's police oversight board has lost its direct access to officers' body-worn camera footage and police investigative reports, a move its chief investigator is calling a "structural attack" on civilian oversight.

The FBI stripped the Board of Police Commissioners of that access on May 15 over compliance issues with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services division, which enforces strict rules for handling the law enforcement databases behind nearly every background check and criminal-record lookup.

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