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Downtown resident Laura Hanan has sent out another video of what appears to be crime. Hanan has expressed her displeasure with the location of Brick City in the past. But her recent video e-mailings got me thinking: What do y'all think about a resident filming apparent illegal activity and posting it online? I've heard folks express their views to me over e-mail or in person, but I'd like to get a conversation started.
Here's the latest video:
COMMENTS:
As for privacy of the folks in the video? Welcome to the 21st Century.
Cameras and cell phones record video now, and posting is easy to do. Expect more.
What will be interesting is when the laws have to catch up with privacy and defamation issues for online posting. You can't use someones image in a film or video without a release if it is for commercial purposes. What if it is just to harass or defame?
In this case, it is underage drinking. What about over serving in a bar? Driving away after someone records you downing ten beers? Urinating on a wall? Wait, that happens in this video.
Things are going to get complicated.
If you're in public doing something illegal, you're pretty much fair game for anyone with a camera. One just has to be careful not to say things a video alone could not prove (at which point you enter that slippery slope of whether or not it is a false claim).
I'm no legal expert though, this is just to the best of my knowledge.
Laura is doing the right thing, has definitely shown a real and consistent problem, and it shouldn't fall only on law enforcement funded by tax dollars to correct it. If Brick City is unable or unwilling to keep activities on its premises and resulting from its business operations within the law, their existance should be seriously questioned.
I'm really disappointed in Brick City's continued failings. World Vision certainly has the resources to do better, and I simply cannot understand how an otherwise upstanding organization such as World Vision would allow these illegal, community-damaging activities to continue in their own backyard. They should be a model of how to do it right!
Its completely legal. Plus, it is in public view. In such a circumstance, there is no right to privacy of any kind.
The videos appear to pretty much speak for themselves. No spin one way or another needed.
The song has been recorded by many artists but made famous by George Thorogood (and the Destroyers), who wrote it in the '70s. Thorogood is also famous for "Bad to the Bone" and many other songs.
L. Hanan
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