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A printable one-page Guide to Recording Law Enforcement

The EFF handout explains why officers can't order you to stop filming but can make you move, months after the ACLU shut down its Mobile Justice app.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 02, 2026
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Roqiullo Tebar / Shutterstock
Roqiullo Tebar / Shutterstock

You may be aware that cops have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, and that you have a constitutional right to record what they do. Cellphone video proved that police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes, and the right to record it is why the footage helped convict him of his …

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