Bowling Green Police Division received multiple phone calls on Thursday (June 6) from local residents and businesses about a group of people taking photos or videos of people in the community.
Police Lt. Dan Mancuso said this morning that he fielded several of those calls from concerned citizens about people walking through the downtown area, filming people in businesses through windows.
“They were asking about the legality of people being able to tape them in businesses,” Mancuso said. He informed them that the photographers, who often call themselves “constitutional auditors” or “First Amendment auditors,” are not breaking any laws by filming people.
“If you can see it from a public place, you can tape it,” he said.
The practice has become somewhat commonplace across the nation, with the “auditors” posting videos in instances where people object to the filming and try to make the photographers cease videotaping.
