So, by the transitive property, if the footage is not released then it assumed to be not in the agency's best interests?

So...never?

Every agency of the government should have only one interest, the well being of the people.

And just why is this left up to them?

Of course they won't. The number one principle about ICE is that it can not and will not be held accountable to anyone but itself and the President.

Our taxes paid for that footage. It belongs to all of us. Period.

We need representatives with some backbone

So like any other piece of shit police force

the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”.

Lets see how made up department policy stands up to a FOIA request in front of a federal judge.

So it's along the same lines as regular cops except instead of the hardware/footage mYsTeRiOuSlY "malfunctioned", "corrupt footage" or "deleted" every time they are under investigation for excessive brutality or gross negligence the getapo ice can just say "fuck you, no"

The audacity with taxpayer salaries. Fuck ICE.

So if they don’t release it we can assume they were in the wrong. Now we need the media to start reporting like that’s the case. “ICE refused to release the video because it will make them look bad or show guilt, per their own statements”. Then the courts need to start ruling that way as admission of guilt when video and other evidence is withheld or destroyed.

If not gestapo then why do gestapo things?

All they've done is state plainly what has always been every law enforcement agency's unofficial policy regarding body-cam footage and made it official. ICE is what the police want to be but can't be seen openly as, a fascist paramilitary occupying force. The only reason police keep up the appearance of transparency and accountability is because mass movements and the threat of them has forced them to. ICE is as yet unburdened by that baggage, though they got a taste of it after the surge in Minneapolis and they briefly had to pretend to change by firing Kristi Noem.

This was known btw when they started pushing for body cams.

Somebody needs to be following Susan Collins and screaming this, with a sign, 24/7

I feel like there was legislation passed federally after BLM that stated departments had to release body cam footage publicly if requested? I know atleast for police officers.

Does that not apply for ICE?

Don't they then have to classify all footage and declassify what they want to use publically at the least?

well then they'll keep losing over and over in court and end up paying massive penalties. If their goal is to make dissidents rich winning easy court cases, and set precedents they dont like, I guess have at it. I look forward to my turn beating their dumb arses in court. Maybe getting rich off ICE misconduct can be the new American Dream.

These dummies keep makingt the case over and over that they arent real law enforcement, which erodes their authority.

Of course not. They will kick out anyone who's not white and Christian. They will try to destroy or distort anything recording their activities.

Fucking Kluxer department should rename itself DCE.