Surveillance video
show · educate · routeFixed-camera footage from a business, residence, or public system — powerful when preserved, litigated hard when it was not.
What this type commonly supports
- How an incident unfolded
- Who was present and when
- Lighting, weather, and conditions
How the gates bear on it
Original contents
Describing what a recording showed, to prove the recording's contents, is Article X territory — and a playback problem is not a statutory ground by itself.
“All originals are lost or destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith.”
Authentication
System-and-process testimony (how the camera records, retention, export) commonly carries the foundation.
Hearsay
The images are not statements; embedded audio can be — every layer gets its own route.
“Except as provided by statute, hearsay evidence is inadmissible.”
The governing units, loaded whole
- § 90.952, Fla. Stat. — originals
- § 90.954, Fla. Stat. — the four grounds
- The Best Evidence module — Dyer, T.D.W., J.J., named with citations
The recurring failure modes
- Letting the retention cycle overwrite the source file
- Exporting a clip and discarding the native file
- A witness narrating an unintroduced recording
Software, not a law firm. This page teaches how Florida's evidence gates generally bear on this type — legal information, not legal advice, and never a prediction about your evidence. Whether a particular item clears the gates in your case is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The five-gate frame lives on the Evidence Command Center.