Law Creates 'No Recording' Zone Around Police

[ruet]

Pure garbage!

[exboyfil]

1. I think the police should be able to request you back up six feet

from an active scene - whether you are recording or not should be irrelevant.

[ruet]

3. There Are Already Laws for That.

If it can be shown that you physically impeded an officer in the course of their duties it's called obstruction. This is just a ploy to hide George Floyd type videos. Officers can just walk up to you and demand that you stay 8ft way from them until you no longer have a shot of the scene.

[unblock]

4. Therein lies the whole issue.

Whatever they need for scene safety and to carry out their duties in a reasonable manner can be specified without any reference to anyone recording anything


The fact that they're mentioning recording at all makes it obvious that it's the recording that they object to, not the location or position.


Then they'll have rules that make recording challenging without actually mentioning recording. Then it becomes a matter of, can they justify those rules against anyone, whether they are recording or not.

[jaxexpat]

2. Interesting issue to discuss.

My concern? How long before a copycat legislature in another state misuses it as an excuse/example to undermine the 1st amendment?

[Walleye]

5. Well the videos interfere with their official lying