Here is an update on the situation at UC San Diego as the Muslim Student Association began their week of anti-Israel events. Below is my initial report:
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/05/msa-intimidation-at-uc-san-diego.html
Last night, private security hired by event organizers prevented any video recording or audio recording of the event by outside persons.
This morning, a friend of mine called the UCSD Dean's office to inquire about the policy and to inform them of how the issue had been resolved at UC Irvine the previous week. My friend was told by an unidentified woman that the UCSD had a "different interpretation of the law", had consulted with their own attorneys, and that the "organizers of the event" had requested that no public filming be allowed. She further advised that they would send their policy to my friend in writing.
Stand by.
Meanwhile, here is a video from The United West from May 2011 at UCSD. Watch what happens when Tom Trento and his team arrive to videotape the MSA events. This is good stuff.
I must make one correction to the video. The Muslim Brotherhood is not a designated terrorist organization.
(But it should be.)
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Being loud-mouthed, boastful, offensive, and idiotic does not qualify any organization as "terrorist." One has to execute acts of terror against a general civilian population, or credibly threaten to do so, to be a "terrorist organization."
I would be very interested in seeing this "written policy" allowing for a public university to prohibit videotaping of public events. A private university could do that, or not, extend such a privilege to organizations on its property, or not. A public university most likely has no authority to do anything of the kind.
A really daring move, but not necessarily a wise or productive one, would have been to call San Diego police, report that privately hired thugs are interfering with your First Amendment rights, and try to have the security guards ordered by uniformed police (real sworn officers) to cease and desist or be arrested.
Of course, you never know which way any given officer(s) sent into a situation will decided to act. They might threaten to arrest the videographer. There's no telling what the police will do.
I poked around and found this site for filming guidelines at UCSD
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/filming
I do not think this would apply since this appears for commercial film not fair use.
I don't see how filming a speaker at a public event at a public university where there would be an expectation of privacy. But I ain't no lawyer.
Anonymous,
This appears to be commercial filming. Key words-public event, public place/university.
UCSD has no right to stop the videotaping.
There is such a thing as a limited public forum within the context of a university campus. That might or might not allow for a policy of no video taping. A limited public forum must have a viewpoint neutral definition and the restrictions must apply across the board to all limited public fora.
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