mercredi 29 novembre 2023

Audit videos - filming in public

Maybe some of you are familiar with it.
Public audit videos on youtube.
I wonder what your opinion is - about the auditors and also about the reactions they get?

For those who are unaware:
Members of the public (auditors) film on sidewalks or go into public offices and film their interactions or reactions they get. They often make a FOIA requests in public offices. Sometimes the public servants react cordial, sometimes they bark orders like 'you can't film here' or 'you need my permission to film me' etc.. Sometimes they also call the cops. Cops usually educate the employees when they arrive. But sometimes even the cops aren't aware of the laws about public photography and threaten the auditor with an illegal trespass or arrest.

As far as I understand from those videos, members of the public are free to film anything they can see in public (in the USA). There is no expectation of privacy in public. This also includes public lobbies and areas of public buildings or public offices. Such offices often have signs saying 'no filming' on doors etc.. But that's just their policy. But the law trumps any policy. A policy can't or shouldn't be enforced by law enforcement officers, against the law they swore to protect. They are law enforcement, not policy or feelings enforcement.

Although I'm probably not on the same political spectrum as most of the auditors supposedly are, I like to watch their videos from time to time and find the reactions they get quite interesting. The bad reactions range from being hilarious and laughable to very disturbing. The latter is often the case when employees gang-up on the auditor and make false claims or straight lies, especially in front of the police, exaggerating the situation or trying to incite other members of the public or other employees against the auditor, all while they know very well that their behavior is documented on camera. And not only on the auditor's camera, but also CCTV which is often installed inside public buildings and offices.

Just two examples here by 'Audit Them'. Although I don't want to promote a single auditor, it happens to be just the most recent videos that I remember. Each one as an exemplary for very positive and very negative reaction. I watch quite a few other channels/auditors as well:

Positive:
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Negative, despicable clerk...:
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