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Right to Record Act
Coverage of Right to Record Act in the Nexus archive.
- Democrats offer up legal protections for people filming ICE operations
Democrats Maxwell Frost and Richard Blumenthal introduced the 'Right to Record' Act to protect individuals filming federal law enforcement operations, including ICE agents, and allow legal action if rights are violated. The bill aims to prevent officers from obstructing recording, retaliating against recorders, or using surveillance to identify them, following incidents where federal agents clashed with protesters and faced First Amendment lawsuits.