Texas should pass legislation protecting the rights of citizens to record the police without arbitrary distances and allowing officers to order such recording position to be changed when their safety or ability to perform their duties is interfered with. Texas should also adopt an amendment to current statute governing interference with governmental operations to provide a defense for filming, recording, photographing, documenting, or observing a peace officer alone similar to the “speech alone” exemption in current statute.
Better Policies Can Bring Down New Orleans Crime Rates
It’s truly disappointing that the New Year was rung in with headlines such as “New Orleans is ‘America’s Murder Capital’ of 2022,” after nine shooting incidents in just 24 hours at year’s end. As a native Louisianan, a former probation and parole officer, and the Louisiana State Director of Right On Crime, a criminal justice initiative of...