Lawyers Seek To Restrain Police Videotaping
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Civil rights attorneys yesterday asked a federal judge to keep in place strict rules forbidding the police from videotaping public events without a law enforcement purpose.
The court filing by the lawyers come less than a month after the police department told the judge, Charles Haight Jr., that he was hampering the department’s ability to detect threats of terrorism.
The dispute over videotaping is the latest to arise in a decades-old consent decree governing the police department’s investigation of political activities.
