this item originating at the County Clerk’s office.
This may or may not be what the Commission voted on Tuesday. It’s not signed by any of the voting Commissioners or the County Clerk.
It says it’s a NOTICE. Is a Notice an ordinance?
It’s still not on the County’s website list of ordinances.
So many questions!
Cynics might have still other questions.
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The actual decision is broader than that.
It’s not just about police, it’s about
“The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a
public place”.
Quoting from United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit, No. 10-1764, August 26, 2011.
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The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frameContinue readingit, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It is firmly established that the First Amendment’s aegis extends further than the text’s proscription on laws