Welcome to the Police and the Press: Balancing First Amendment Rights with Operational Challenges training course. This training will present an informative program about the rights and limitations of journalists and citizens to photograph and record law enforcement and public safety officers performing their official duties in public. The discussion will include case law supporting First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights tempered by valid time, place, and manner restrictions, and will cover the most recent cases, rulings, and national trends through the use of photos and videos.
This course will also focus on areas including:
- Search and seizure, exigent circumstances, and qualified immunity
- Encountering First Amendment “auditors” and media-crowd management
- Prohibitions against the destruction or deletion of files and recordings
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: 22-02-2-A1
- Area: 201
- Topic: Constitutional Law
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