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Two Washington-area members of Congress introduced a bill Friday requiring all uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and in-car cameras be equipped in federal patrol vehicles.

Federal police officers aren’t currently equipped with such cameras, and the U.S. Park Police did not record an incident last year in which two of its officers shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar, an unarmed motorist in Fairfax County who had fled from a traffic stop. Park Police have refused to discuss the shooting in the year since the Nov. 17, 2017, incident, and the names of the officers involved have not been released.

A Fairfax County police officer who followed the Park Police pursuit of Ghaisar down the George Washington Memorial Parkway recorded the episode on his in-car camera, and Fairfax Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. released an edited version of the video in January, over federal investigators' objections.

The bill proposed by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) states that footage from federal police body cameras “may not be withheld from the public on the basis that it is an investigatory record or was compiled for law enforcement purposes” in cases where officers are the subject of the investigation.

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