U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue

U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue: U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue

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U.S. Department of Justice Slaps Baltimore Police Over Right to Record Issue

05-16-2012 • Photography Is Not a Crime

That letter provoked the police department into issuing a 7-page General Order to its officers February stating that citizens have the “absolute right” to record cops in public as long as they did not "violate any section of any law, ordinance, code or criminal article."

Baltimore cops simply expanded existing laws to allow them to continue cracking down on camera-wielding citizens, including threatening to arrest a man for loitering.


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Reported by Powell Gammill