{"id":133817,"date":"2017-07-07T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/on-video-recording-the-police.html"},"modified":"2017-07-07T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T00:13:08","slug":"on-video-recording-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/on-video-recording-the-police.html","title":{"rendered":"On video recording the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over half of US states are now covered by Federal Circuit rulings that say video recording the police is both legal and vital to public accountability &#8212; this beyond state laws allowing for the practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/07\/a-major-victory-for-the-right-to-record-police\/533031\/?utm_source=atlgp'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rM9OISVprr3Rn8zuiaOQ8CaW23a3vIOtNQaTGZ7yReNFbRkKfU3c3bVdJFreACzte4y26-wvvrAC3tQyk071zGkW1vY0tLYTmyK9ue9pFW3oST2drhikjM9Hrjiw2j1Qb-Bn1FRrxBKxM1zb0GG__Yo=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/07\/a-major-victory-for-the-right-to-record-police\/533031\/?utm_source=atlgp'>A Major Victory for the Right to Record Police &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFederal appeals courts covering half of U.S. states have now ruled that Americans have a First Amendment right to videotape encounters with law enforcement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XL9jKzvQXJp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half of US states are now covered by Federal Circuit rulings that say video recording the police is both legal and vital to public accountability &#8212; this beyond state laws allowing for the practice. A Major Victory for the Right to Record Police &#8211; The Atlantic Federal appeals courts covering half of U.S. states &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/on-video-recording-the-police.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On video recording the police&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/recording-the-police-is-not-a-crime.html","url_meta":{"origin":133817,"position":0},"title":"Recording the police is not a crime","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Nov-12 9:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"So says (finally) the Supreme Court.There is no question that police have a hell of a job. 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This has been confirmed in court again and again.And, of course, if you are taking their pictures, the police don't have the right to smash your cell phone, take your cell phone, lock you in a cell for a few hours (or more), hit you over the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/filmingrecording-the-police-is-still-legal-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":133817,"position":2},"title":"Filming\/recording the police is (still) legal (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-May-14 12:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"You'd think they'd get the message, but courts keep having to tell them otherwise.\ufeff Court upholds \u201cFirst Amendment\u201d right to film police Ruling is one of many nationwide supporting right to record police. 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