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by Alex Kornfeld

There Are No Laws Against Recording Police Officers In Public

You can record police officers in public. You can’t interfere with a police officer. If you are simply recording but not interfering with an officer in a public place it is not illegal.

Jesse Bright, a lawyer in North Carolina, was incorrectly told by an officer that filming the officer was illegal. Here’s the link.

Here is another article concerning filming an officer:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/what-to-say-when-the-police-tell-you-to-stop-filming-them/391610/