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***Note: Many local criminal codes can now be located under Chapter 10.60 SMC while others are now cited under the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which was incorporated into the municipal code in 2022. (See SMC 10.58.010). Code Enforcement, including Noise Control and Animal Regulations are located in Chapters 10.62 through 10.74.

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Chapter 10.56
Section 10.56.010
 

Title 10 Regulation of Activities

Chapter 10.56 Reality-Based Police Shows

Section 10.56.010 Definitions

  1. “Broadcast” means to communicate or transmit any content, including audio or video programming, to recipients over a communication network.

  2. “Consent” means a knowing, voluntary, and informed written waiver indicating the willingness of a person shown in video captured by a reality-based police show and obtained prior to the broadcast of such video. A person who is mentally incapacitated as defined in this chapter is incapable of providing the consent required by this chapter.

  3. “Footage” means any raw, unedited material filmed or recorded by a film or video camera.

  4. “Mentally incapacitated” means any condition existing at the time the person signs a release which prevents a person from understanding the nature or consequences of consenting to the broadcasting or distribution of this footage whether that condition is produced by illness, defect, the influence of a substance or from some other cause.

  5. “Reality-Based Police Show” means any program which is distributed by television, digitally, or by any other means that temporarily embeds camera crews with law enforcement personnel for the purpose of documenting and publishing law enforcement interactions with people within the city of Spokane, regardless of whether the police law enforcement personnel are Spokane Police Department or Spokane County Sheriff’s Department personnel. This definition does not include bona fide news organizations or camera crews which are not embedded with or under contract with a law enforcement agency.

Date Passed: Monday, March 5, 2018

Effective Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018

ORD C35593 Section 1