Petition asking cops to wear body cameras passes 100K

Aja J. Williams, KSDK-TV, St. Louis12:09 p.m. EDT August 21, 2014 | USA Today

FERGUSON, Mo. — A petition asking the White House to look into requiring all state, county and local police to wear lapel cameras has reached 100,000 signatures.

Obama administration officials have said they will respond to petitions that reach that threshold.

Late Tuesday, the petition, created by "J.C." of Hephzibah, Ga., reached the required number. As of noon Wednesday, it had more than 128,000 signatures.

Mike Brown Law. Requires all state, county, and local police to wear a camera.
Create a bill, sign into law, and set aside funds to require all state, county and local police to wear a camera. Due to the latest accounts of deadly encounters with police, We the People, petition for the Mike Brown Law. The law shall be made in an effort to not only detour police misconduct (i.e. brutality, profiling, abuse of power) but to ensure that all police are following procedure and to remove all question from normally questionable police encounters as well as help to hold all parties within a police investigation accountable for their actions.

While the White House's We the People Web page allows anyone 13 and older to create and sign a petition to the government, it doesn't guarantee any action.

If a petition reaches 150 signatures within 30 days, it becomes searchable on the site. If it reaches 100,000 signatures within another 30 days, administration officials say they will respond to the petition. The police camera petition was created Aug. 13.

For a law to be passed, a Congress member would have to create a bill, have it pass committees within the House and Senate, have it pass votes of the full House and Senate and have the president sign it. Any initiative that has a cost associated with it would need to have a funding source.

St. Louis native Kirk Siefert, who now lives in University City, Mo., started another petition on Change.org asking for St. Louis area police officers to wear body cameras. As of mid-day Wednesday, it had more than 45,000 signatures.

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