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It was early morning on July 8, 2018, when Joseph Pettaway’s family was told by a neighbor that he had been badly injured by a police dog overnight and taken to the hospital. He’d been rehabbing a home a block away from where he lived with his mother. His sister, Nancy, set off to see what had ha
Alabama's restrictions on body-camera footage often bars families of those killed by police from seeing what happened.
Alabama is among the most restrictive states for disclosing body-camera footage when police kill loved ones. Surviving family members often must go to court to get access to the video, and even if successful, they usually can’t share it publicly.
When the Alabama Legislature in 2022 allowed permitless carry of concealed weapons, it included a provision requiring people with concealed weapons to disclose that fact to a law enforcement officer.