[News] With objections, the Attorney General's Office asks the Court to make the Citizen Security Law firm

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The article of the citizen security law that allows the Police access to surveillance services should be declared enforceable. This was requested by the Attorney General's Office to the Constitutional Court in one concept.



During the week, the Attorney General's Office, headed by Margarita Cabello, delivered a six-page concept to the Constitutional Court on the citizen security law, asking it to declare one of its articles conditional. In other words, leave it as established by the legislature, but with some reservations. This law, which was the flag of the outgoing government of Iván Duque, contains several controversial articles, specifically article 48. The rule gives the National Police powers to access surveillance circuits for identification, prevention and prosecution actions.

The concept that rests in the offices of the Court was brought by the Public Ministry after the citizen Juan Manuel López Molina demanded the norm because he considers that with it the right to privacy is ignored. “Congress incurred in a legislative omission relative to regulating access to private surveillance and security circuits by the National Police. This, because it did not include the necessary budgets for the protection of private information captured by the respective cameras”, explained the plaintiff.

The Attorney General's Office said in its document that it will ask the Court to declare the norm conditionally enforceable. “Following the jurisprudential scope given to the right to privacy, the Attorney General’s Office will request that the accused norm be declared exequible under the understanding that the access of the National Police to the surveillance and private security circuits located in places where they can capture images or videos related to semi-private, private or reserved information of people will require the prior authorization that corresponds by virtue of the nature of the data, except in exceptional cases of flagrante delicto or imperative necessity in which the corresponding jurisdictional control must be resorted to ”, highlights the document of the Attorney.

For the Public Prosecutor's Office, it is clear that said rule, when regulating access to surveillance and security circuits by the Police, did not include any restriction or authorization to guarantee respect for the right to privacy, which, in its opinion, can be affected by the review by the agents of the images captured by the cameras. This is not the first criticism that the controversial law receives. At the beginning of August, several organizations demanded the regulation, including the article, because it violates citizen rights and encourages the abuse of authority.

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