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Federal judge rules that MA law against secretly recording Gov Officials at work is unconstitutional.

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December 11, 2018, 05:34 PM
46and2
Federal judge rules that MA law against secretly recording Gov Officials at work is unconstitutional.
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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December 11, 2018, 06:49 PM
PD
Big news around here
December 11, 2018, 07:00 PM
bigdeal
Go get 'em Mr. O'Keef. Smile


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December 11, 2018, 07:27 PM
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?
December 12, 2018, 08:49 AM
Perception
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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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