In a shift from the agency’s traditional policy, the Justice Department will now make its federal agents wear body cameras in certain circumstances, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Monday.
Monaco sent a memo to leaders of law enforcement acknowledging that “[a]lthough the Department’s law enforcement components do not regularly conduct patrols or routinely engage with the public in response to emergency calls, there are circumstances where the Department’s agents encounter the public during pre-planned law enforcement operations,” adding that the Justice Department “is committed to the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by the Department’ s law enforcement agents in such circumstances.”
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