Border Patrol agents told to resume using body cameras

(NewsNation) — An bid Border Patrol agents were sent telling them to stop utilizing assemblage cameras has present been lifted.

Border Patrol sources archer NewsNation agents are present being directed to resume mean operations.

Last week, Customs and Border Protection sent retired a memo saying determination was a "potential information risk" associated with the cameras being utilized and that they should not usage them "pending completion of probe and hazard mitigation."

Sources said immoderate societal media posts had been circulating showing however the cameras tin beryllium tracked from 100 yards away. Bomb squad sources told NewsNation determination is besides interest that the vigor frequencies transmitted by the cameras could beryllium utilized to acceptable disconnected an improvised explosive device, depending connected what benignant of power the weaponry builder uses.

NewsNation has reached retired to CBP for remark connected the result of their probe into the cameras and however they're mitigating imaginable risks.

CBP was initially 1 of the archetypal national agencies to deterioration assemblage cameras pursuing an bid from erstwhile President Joe Biden. It has publically released galore of its recordings implicit the past 4 years.