<story><title>Illegal to record an on-duty officer?</title><url>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/are-cameras-the-new-guns/#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text>I&apos;m looking forward to when one of these laws gets challenged in court and finally thrown out for good. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy if you&apos;re a public employee, on duty, in a public place. It doesn&apos;t matter how much you try to torture the words &quot;reasonable&quot;, &quot;private&quot;, or &quot;public&quot;&lt;p&gt;If someone really is obstructing police work, then the current statutes against obstructing police work are applicable. Police should be limited to enforcing those and not try to criminalize photography.</text></comment>
<story><title>Illegal to record an on-duty officer?</title><url>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/are-cameras-the-new-guns/#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathewgj</author><text>I immediately wondered how the Rodney King case would have been different if it was affected by a law of this kind. Does anyone know if the video footage would have been inadmissable?&lt;p&gt;On a different note, I have spent a lot of time in developing countries, and some of the most consistent hallmarks are ridiculous bans on photographing anything government-related. Laws like this in the US make me worry about the country sliding backwards into dysfunction.</text></comment>