That gives its director discretion to release recordings that reflect well on the agency’s image while working to keep others secret, experts on body camera policies said. Body camera policy allows withholding some videoICE’s policy requires officers to activate cameras during routine enforcement activities, including while making arrests, executing search warrants and responding to emergencies. “And if you look at the data, body cameras actually exonerate agents more than they, you know, provide evidence of wrongdoing.” After returning to office in 2025, President Donald Trump rescinded a Biden order requiring federal law enforcement agencies to use body cameras. Houser said the Trump administration should have equipped officers with body cameras when it expanded mass arrests and traffic stops.