Lifetime probationer may record police

PHOENIX — An appeals court in Arizona partially vacated the state’s modification of probation conditions for a lifetime probationer released in 2015 after serving five years for “dangerous crimes against children.” While officer safety is “unquestionably” a goal of probation, the state has not shown how prohibiting the probationer “from video recording (while allowing him to audio record) his interactions with probation personnel in public and in his own home” enhances officers’ safety. As such, the imposition of the state’s “filming probation officers condition” violates both the Arizona Constitution and the First Amendment. “That condition is vacated.”Read the ruling here.Subscribe to our free newslettersOur weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.Additional Reads