I found this on a tech site and thought this might be of interest to a lot of you here:
US Department of Justice says citizens have a broad right to record police officers on duty
A snippet - which happens to be the first paragraph in the article:
Quote: The US Department of Justice sent a strongly worded letter to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on Monday, reprimanding it for insufficiently supporting the right of citizens to record video of officers on duty — a move that suggests the federal government is becoming increasingly concerned over related civil rights abuses. The DOJ is not satisfied with the BPD's response to a settlement for a case involving the unlawful harassment and detention of a man named Christopher Sharp — just one of many similar incidents across the US involving police officers encroaching on the right of citizens to record their public duties.
Sorry if this is the wrong section, I didn't *think* this needed to be in the political section since it discusses photographer rights.
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