I sometimes watch those First Amendment auditors on youtube, and Amagansett Press is one of the best. About 12 years ago, I started my own local news blog and go to the local school board, city council and county commission meetings. I then write legitimate news articles on them, including local politics.
I began to notice that most all public buildings had cameras to watch the public and keep track of us. I said to myself that it needs to be the other way ‘round - WE need to have cameras watching THEM. I also thought that once that began to happen, our “public servants” wouldn’t like being watched one damn bit.
With everyone carrying a video recorder around with them and filming everything, sure enough, they don’t like it a bit.
To paraphrase Jefferson’’ An honest bureaucrat need not fear a surveillance camera’’.