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411.06 DOWNLOADING AND LABELING DATA Each officer using a BWC is responsible for ensuring their BWC is docked correctly in the designated location by the end of their shift. If the officer becomes aware of an issue in transferring BWC data, a supervisor should be notified. If an officer is involved in a shooting, in -custody death, or other law enforcement activity resulting in death or great bodily harm, a supervisor or investigator shall take custody of the officer's camera and assume responsibility for transferring the data from it. If an investigating agency requests to take control of the camera, the data must first be transferred to the department's servers and the Chief of Police or designee must authorize the transfer of the camera to the outside agency. To ensure proper retention periods, it is important officers shall label and classify the camera data files at the time of video capture or transfer to storage. See Appendix A for the classifications and definitions. 411.07 DATA CLASSIFICATION The consideration of the data subjects should be as follows: • Any person or entity whose image or voice is documented in the data. • The officer who collected the data. • Any other officer whose voice or image is documented in the data. Under Minnesota Law, Body Warn Camera data is presumptively private or non-public data. Some recordings may be classified as confidential: • If the Body Warn Camera data is collected or created as a part of an active investigation, it may be classified as confidential. This confidential classification takes precedence over the private or public classifications. The Body Warn Camera data that is public is as follows: • Data documenting the discharge of a firearm by a peace officer in the course of duty, other than for training or the killing of an animal that is sick, injured, or dangerous. • Data that documents the use of force by a peace officer that results in substantial bodily harm. • Data that a data subject requests to be made accessible to the public, subject to redaction. Data on any subject (other than a peace officer) who has not consented to the public release must be redacted if practicable. Any data on undercover officers must be redacted. • Data that documents the final disposition of a disciplinary action against a public employee. Policy 411 Page 5 of 9