🎥 Title:
Data Ownership in Emergencies: Who Controls the Eyewitness Video?

Episode:
TiPS: Today in Public Safety – 25 0806

Host: Mark J. Fletcher, ENP (@Fletch911)

📲 A panicked bystander captures a dramatic scene and sends it straight to 911. Helpful? Sure. But also… legally messy. Welcome to the NG911 era—where your call taker might be reviewing shaky cellphone footage that includes graphic trauma, background chaos, and oh yeah—someone who definitely didn’t sign a media release.

In this episode of TiPS: Today in Public Safety, Fletch tackles the thorny issues of eyewitness media ownership, FOIA vulnerability, AI-based triage, and the urgent need for national standards on public-sourced content in emergency communications.

Whether you’re a PSAP director, call taker, or just someone who’s ever asked, “Can I just send a video to 911?”, this one’s for you.

⛑️ Key Topics Covered:

• NG911’s expanding media intake capabilities

• Who really owns public-submitted content?

• Legal gray zones: minors, faces, copyright, and consent

• FOIA risks and the reality of media being public record

• The emotional toll on call takers reviewing graphic content

• Why AI might be the next best teammate in the ECC

• NENA’s IRI (Incident Related Images) workgroup and what’s coming next

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