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APD, bodycam, and public-records retention. What the clock means, and why it matters before evidence ages out.
Bodycam, dispatch audio, and records-routing logs do not live forever. Each has a retention schedule. Once the schedule expires, the record is gone — not because anyone destroyed it, but because the rule said so.
This piece lays out the retention windows that matter most for housing-related police contact, and the wording that gets a preservation request honored before the clock runs.
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