Justin Timberlake is going to court to stop the release of police body cam video from his 2024 DWI arrest, arguing that making it public would cause “severe and irreparable harm” to both his personal life and career, not to mention open the floodgates to ridicule and harassment.

The arrest itself went down in June 2024, when Timberlake was pulled over in Sag Harbor, out on Long Island. He was charged with driving while intoxicated but later reached a deal, pleading guilty to a reduced, noncriminal driving-while-impaired violation.

On Monday, his attorneys filed a petition against the Village of Sag Harbor and its police department, aiming to block the footage from being released in response to Freedom of Information Law requests filed by media outlets. The concern isn’t about the charge, that’s already settled, but about the optics.

The petition states, in part:

“The footage at issue depicts petitioner in an acutely vulnerable state during a roadside encounter with law enforcement, capturing intimate details of petitioner’s physical appearance, demeanor, speech, and conduct during field sobriety testing, the subsequent arrest, and petitioner’s confinement following arrest over the next several hours. Public dissemination of this footage would cause severe and irreparable harm to Petitioner’s personal and professional reputation, subject Petitioner to public ridicule and harassment, and serve no legitimate public interest in understanding the operations of government. Disclosure of this footage would constitute an unwarranted invasion of Petitioner’s personal privacy under Public Officers Law. The privacy interests at stake decisively outweigh any purported public benefit from disclosure, and this court should exercise its authority to prevent the release of this highly sensitive material.”

A judge has yet to rule on the request. Instead, Timberlake’s legal team has been instructed to sit down with Sag Harbor officials and see if there’s a middle ground to be found.