The Public’s Evolution from News Reader to News Gatherer: An Analysis of the First Amendment Right to Videorecord Police
This and other police shootings caught on video have sparked a national conversation about police procedures, particularly procedures related to race and the use of force...
Cop-Watch: An Analysis of the Right to Record Police Activity and Its Limits
Over the last year, the news headlines blaring that a police officer’s potentially inappropriate actions were recorded have become almost too familiar. The social climate has shifted to one where much of the historic...
Cop Watch/Cop Listen/Cop Move: Policing the Police With Performative Methodologies
In this essay, the authors argue for sound and movement as performative methodologies for studying policing. The proposed performative methodology, “Cop Watch/Cop Listen/Cop Move,” provides a space for...
Privacy in Public
As government and private companies rapidly expand the infrastructure of surveillance from cameras on every street corner to facial recognition for photographs on social media sites, privacy doctrines built on seclusion are at odds with technological advances. This essay...
Film the Police! Cop-Watching and Its Embodied Narratives
Police accountability organizations known as “cop‐watching” groups are proliferating thanks to smartphone penetration and the ease of video sharing on social networks. These groups use digital media technologies to challenge official...
The First Amendment Right to Record Images of Police in Public Places: The Unreasonable Slipperiness of Reasonableness & Possible Paths Forward
Analyzing federal cases through May 2015, this Article examines the current, contested terrain of the emerging, yet qualified, First Amendment right to...
The New Transparency: Police Violence in the Context of Ubiquitous Surveillance
Media and surveillance scholars often comment on the purported empowering quality of transparency, which they expect participatory media to promote. From its Enlightenment origins, transparency is related to...
“V.I.P.” VIDEOGRAPHER INTIMIDATION PROTECTION: HOW THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROTECT CITIZENS WHO VIDEOTAPE THE POLICE
The free flow of information concerning public officials’ performance of their duties, widely disseminated to the citizenry, is important to the proper functioning of a democratic...
Staring Down the State: Police Power, Visual Economies, and the ''War on Cameras''
This paper considers how the politics of security and order are also a politics of aesthetics encompassing practical struggles over the authority and regulation of ways of looking and knowing. To do this, the...
WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHMEN?: CITIZENS RECORDING POLICE CONDUCT
Ordinary citizens are being arrested and prosecuted for recording police conduct in several states. These arrests are being made pursuant to state wiretapping statutes that prohibit the recording of any communication without the...
The First Amendment and the Police in the Digital Age
In almost thirty-two years as a judge, I have written over 1300 opinions. Each of these opinions was important to the parties involved, yet some have gained more prominence than others. This essay addresses one of those—a 2011 decision that...
Camera Shy and Unaccountable: The Constitutional, Statutory, and Democratic Ramifications of Police Seizing and Deleting Photos and Video Taken in Public
Journalists and the more than 114 million Americans who carry smartphones are now in a position to instantly record and publicize any...
Before You Press Record: Unanswered Questions Surrounding the First Amendment Right to Film Public Police Activity
After a wave of high profile arrests of smartphone-toting citizens whose only crime was recording police officers in the exercise of their public duties, constitutional challenges...
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FORMALISM: “CLEARLY ESTABLISHED LAW” AND THE RIGHT TO RECORD POLICE ACTIVITY
The Supreme Court promotes an expansive view of qualified immunity protection that imposes a high bar for showing that conduct violates clearly established law. But precedent provides scant...
Information Gathering in the Era of Mobile Technology: Towards a Liberal Right to Record
Cameras are everywhere. From private security footage to homeland security surveillance to the photographic mapping of the streets of the world, people today are under constant scrutiny while in the public...
POLICING THE POLICE: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY, AND CIVILIAN RECORDINGS OF POLICE ACTIVITY
In recent years, the proliferation of miniature recording devices and free video-sharing websites has led to a dramatic increase in citizen journalism. The effect of this development is...
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