NACDL News: Department of Justice Announces New Policy Concerning the Recording Of Custodial Interro

A new Department of Justice policy, announced May 12, 2014, and effective July 11, 2014, creates a presumption in favor of recording custodial interrogations. For far too long, the nation’s federal law enforcement agencies have been behind the curve in terms of implementing this simple but critical and enormously beneficial practice. As detailed on NACDL’s newly launched, Web-based resource on recording interrogations, hundreds of jurisdictions across the country currently record interrogations as a matter of law or local policy.