Welcome to the Freedom of the Press: What You Need to Know training course. A panel of Attorney Mickey Osterreicher, Attorney Eric Daigle, and Captain Spencer Fomby discuss recording police and the First Amendment concerns. This session covers legal standards & interpretations, electronic interception platforms, social media monitoring, and policy & training development.
This course will also focus on areas including:
- Understanding the legal First Amendment Standards related to the press
- Clarifying right of the press to record government operations
- Identifying who is the press
Our training experts recommend this course for all officers, ranks, and command staff.
Instructor: Mickey H. Osterreicher, Esq.
Mickey H. Osterreicher serves as general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). He is an award-winning photojournalist with over forty years’ experience in print and broadcast and has been a uniformed reserve deputy sheriff with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) since 1976. Osterreicher was a member of the IACP Public Recording of Police advisory committee and helped draft the manuals and provide training on this issue. He has also instructed at previous Use of Force Summits as well as numerous annual IACP and National Sheriffs Association (NSA) meetings and provided training on this subject to many law enforcement agencies nationwide, including: Washington, D.C., Tampa, Cleveland, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Denver and Milwaukee. He is also certified under the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) honored him in 2015 as a “Fellow of the Society,” the highest professional honor given by the Society for extraordinary contribution to the profession.
- Credit Hours: 1
- Class ID: 22-01-2-A1
- Area: 201
- Topic: Constitutional Law
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