Google glass, fake facebook account, and VPN.
Secret Police?....
Cops are not our overlords. Be prepared to be photographed in public just like everyone else. Follow the law and your training and it will all work out fine.
Shouldn’t it be illegal to photograph anyone and post it online ?
Not a good law
So it’ll be illegal to be a witness to a crime?
Just another step away from open accountability. Kind of like how the cops started blaring Beatles music during their stops if they think their getting filmed, that way its yanked by Youtube for copy-write infringement.
I’m not sure that I could support that.
Not Sees controlling what you can Not See...
This may have been well intentioned, but the practical outcome is that it will be used to shield bad cops.
make it illegal to photograph or video law enforcement?
Are they special?
I was recording a traffic accident where the women driver spun out making a right turn and knocked down a street light. She was not hurt. She tried to leave the scene and gunned the engine but was going nowhere. I recorded this. The 2 police officers that showed up were more concerned about me filming then the accident.
The courts generally have ruled photographing and recording law enforcement is perfectly legal. What a waste of time.
If in public anyone is fair game for photographs—Sunshine is good to prevent abuse. And in private, I will record as well for the same reasons. Laws like the proposed one only allows government misconduct to go unproven and unchecked.
This seems to be a reaction to the group who are trying to make police the enemy. And while I understand their desire to back law enforcement, this is not the way.
Oklahoma cops, OHP especially, had to be stopped from random search and seizure as well.
I don’t know what rube in the state legislature gets things like this started but it is some kind of red neck conservatism out of control.
People have to be reminded over and over that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
How are they going to stop dashcam that automatically upload to the cloud?
Apparently some animals are more equal than others.
Under that test naming a police officer in a news article, or showing their picture, or saying that they in fact work for the police department could be subject to prosecution depending on the intent of the publisher. That's a ridiculous idea, and likely to lead to all kinds of abuse.
Presumably a defense to the law would be that the intent of the poster was simply educational, or news reporting, so that the 11:00 news anchor isn't at risk of being arrested and charged.
On its face the law would seem to raise a question of whether or not a police department arresting a police officer could publish their name and booking photograph.
It is a bad law. The protections it is trying to create against what might be called doxing of police officers should apply to everyone, or no one.
So when someone photographed my wife and kids posing with local Oklahoma LEO as they brought bags of goodies to the police station to support them, that would be against the law. Goofy nonsense.