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46and2
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In this week's edition of What Good For the Goose:

This was spearheaded by Project Veritas, and is a good thing as long as we're all having to deal with this idea that there's no privacy at all when in public, and the license plate scanners, and the rest of today's surveillance laden war-on-privacy society.

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In the 44-page decision Saris declared that "secret audio recording of government officials, including law enforcement officials, performing their duties in public is protected by the First Amendment, subject only to reasonable time, place and manner restrictions."


I'd like to know more about those pesky "reasonable restrictions".

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So this decision is, in fact saying that the First Ammendment supports secret recording of public employees (police, etc.) except under special, specific situations.

Correct?
 
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Originally posted by Chris42:
So this decision is, in fact saying that the First Ammendment supports secret recording of public employees (police, etc.) except under special, specific situations.

Correct?


That sounds right, although those "reasonable" restrictions might still have to be hashed out in court.



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