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Home Front: Politix

ACLU sues Portland police, challenging bureau’s livestreaming of protests

2020-07-30

[OREGONLIVE] The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Portland Police Bureau, challenging its livestreaming of protests.

The ACLU contends the bureau’s practice of filming and broadcasting protesters violates state law that prohibits police from collecting or maintaining information about the political, religious or social views, associations or activities of people who are not suspected of criminal activity.

The police livestream zooms in on individual faces, making protesters vulnerable to face surveillance technology, the civil rights agency contends.

The livestream has been one of dozens of livestreams of nightly demonstrations in Portland.

"Unlawful police surveillance threatens our First Amendment rights," said Jann Carson, interim executive director of the ACLU of Oregon. "The Portland Police Bureau has no constitutional reason to train its video cameras on demonstrators

Huh? Security cameras film whatever comes into their recording field — that’s the point. If you don’t want to be filmed, stay away,

— or to broadcast those images publicly on the internet, where federal agents and others can analyze them."

How dare the police do the thing the bad guys do so avidly!

City Attorney Tracy Reeve said she couldn’t comment on the pending litigation.

May I suggest the Portland police union hire their own lawyer — I suspect the city attorney’s office will see their fiduciary duty as protecting the city, not its cops.

Federal officers who have been stationed in an incident command center in the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse have been monitoring livestream footage shared on social media of the demonstrations.

Doing their job? What a concept.

Portland police and federal officers have made arrests after reviewing video footage to identify people accused of committing violence or property damage.

The ACLU of Oregon filed its lawsuit Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, the latest legal action stemming from the nightly demonstrations and officers’ use of force.

The suit also is on behalf of an unidentified protester who was caught on the police streaming footage while demonstrating outside the police union office in North Portland on July 13, according to the suit.

The poor darling. It must be so distressing for his/her/its/other delicate soul.

Posted by:Fred

#10 I thought the purpose of protesting was to make your complaint known as widely as possible.

Posted by: James 2020-07-30 21:56

#9 'You can't do that that! That's what we do!'

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-30 17:36

#8 TMZ will be hurt the most by this legal action.

Posted by: Airandee 2020-07-30 14:33

#7 ... people who are not suspected of criminal activity.

Think I found the flaw in their lawsuit.

Posted by: Raj 2020-07-30 10:06

#6 The ACLU is fully in the Marxist camp and they don't want their clients to be filmed while doing their revolution thing.

Makes the court cases harder.

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-07-30 09:01

#5 Let's see what the Soros brigade does with this.

Will he get his money's worth?

Posted by: AlanC 2020-07-30 08:01

#4 Has the ACLU challenged the rioters for rioting? I suppose that if the ACLU prevails, then every home owner with a video security system will have to take it down on this basis.

What an absurdity. More lawfare to gunk up the legal system. The judge ought to toss this out of court and chastise the ACLU for aiding and abetting rioting.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-07-30 07:42

#3 Hey, don't badmouth twats.

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-30 07:07

#2 It's on a public street, twats. It's public information

Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-30 06:49

#1 it's time

Posted by: Chris 2020-07-30 02:18

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