LETTER: Say, “Cheese!”

LETTER: Say, “Cheese!” On August 29, 2026, at 9:02 p.m., Gary Mahoney of Las Vegas submitted a letter to the editor responding to the newspaper’s Thursday editorial on the First Amendment and filming police. In effect to your Thursday editorial connected the First Amendment and filming the police: I find it a spot aggravating to perceive radical importune that it is their law close to movie constabulary officers portion successful public, yet they decry the usage of nationalist cameras (think: Flock) arsenic an penetration of their privacy. Which is it? Do these radical recognize that determination is nary anticipation of privateness portion successful public, including driving connected nationalist roadways? Yes, filming constabulary enactment successful nationalist is protected by the First Amendment. But driving is simply a privilege and being recorded portion doing truthful is not an penetration of privacy. These radical privation to person their barroom and devour it, too. Yet they look not to recognize that determination are 2 sides to the coin.