Judge Puts Courtroom Videos Online
from the take-a-look... dept
While high publicity court cases often involve a judge barring cameras from the courtroom, it appears that some judges are going in the other direction. A judge in an Ohio court has set up his own personal video camera in the courtroom in order to place the videos of the proceedings online in the hopes of educating people. More and more courts are doing so, in a sort of bottom-up version of CourtTV. The information is all public record information, anyway, so no privacy rights are being violated, according to those who support the practice. If the judge can set up his own personal camera, though, what if someone who is just watching the case sets up their own camera? And, if that's allowed, why is it that so many courts are banning camera phones?
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there's clearly a difference
Imagine a divorce case for example.
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