“There were immediately excuses about the video. 4 cameras and none worked right? Anyone the tapes were sent to a California forensics lab. Supposedly. “
I think there needs to be protection for the surveilence videos when they are given to the cop, something like the cops have to make a blind copy of it before even looking at it and give the copy back to the client before they even get to look at it. If Costco still had the tape they should be able to share it with whomever they want. Now the tape may be “lost” for the convienience of the police involved.
It sucks that media like this cannot be protected and at least have a copy remain in the hands of private businesses or individuals.
If I had a store and a security system like this you can bet you biddy i would have a backup system that would keep the last 100+ hours of footage on a hard drive that was hidden really well along with the rest of the contemporary recording equipment in case something like this happened or even in the case of recording failure. I guess I am paranoid about retaining data.
Costco doesn't want those tapes made public. The story they told the police doesn't match witness accounts.
Exactly. If you're going to go to the trouble to have a system with multiple cameras, go to the slight additional trouble to mirror it all over to another site that only you know about. They can seize or subpoena the one. They can't get the other unless you want to reveal its existence.