ACLU's “people’s bodycam” smart phone application

ACLU

Mobile Justice is the ACLU of Virginia’s “people’s bodycam” smart phone application. It allows users to send video of law enforcement interactions to us for review, along with an optional but helpful incident report.

Given the alarming number of instances of police abuse across the country documented by victims or witnesses on their phone cameras, the need for the app is quite real. All too often private videos of police situations somehow disappear once someone’s phone is confiscated. Worse, sometimes phones are damaged or destroyed.

Since the ACLU-VA launched Mobile Justice in November, more than 4,050 people have installed it on their devices. Hundreds of videos have been submitted for review. None yet have warranted legal action on the part of the ACLU-VA, however.