What if one of the cops who shows up happens to also be a part-time firefighter/paramedic, and lends a hand with patient care? What if the agency they occasionally work with is the agency that is providing care? Lines start to get blurrier... (This is a real world scenario that is not uncommon for us)
Obviously the mere existence of the recording is still a long way from a violation, but I do find it troublesome at times...
The amount of private health information that would be exposed in someone's bedroom, on a medical call (where a thorough interview is conducted, revealing all sorts of personal information) is _miles apart_ from what would be recorded by a dashcam at the scene of an accident.
>where a thorough interview is conducted, revealing all sorts of personal information
Given the ubiquity of dashcams, I'm willing to bet that quite a few medical interviews that reveal a lot of personal information have been conducted in earshoot of a dashcam.
What happens when a cop calls an ambulance to check someone out for possible injuries, and the ambulance parks next to the patrol cruiser? Do the paramedics ask the cop to turn his dashcam microphone off while hey ask questions? How would this medical call differ from one that happens in bedroom (other than the lack of personal effects)?
Seems like this scenario probably isn't an order of magnitude less likely than a cop who's also a paramedic listening in on a medical call in someone's bedroom.
What if one of the cops who shows up happens to also be a part-time firefighter/paramedic, and lends a hand with patient care? What if the agency they occasionally work with is the agency that is providing care? Lines start to get blurrier... (This is a real world scenario that is not uncommon for us)
Obviously the mere existence of the recording is still a long way from a violation, but I do find it troublesome at times...