Amazon is ending the Request for Assistance feature in its Neighbors app — but that doesn’t mean your footage can’t be obtained by law enforcement easily elsewhere, without a warrant.
In 2021, Amazon-owned Ring launched a new feature called Request for Assistance (RFA). The feature just required law enforcement agencies to make public requests for Ring footage in the Neighbors app, regardless of intent, and without a warrant.
Prior to RFA, law enforcement agencies were able to directly request footage from users via email.
