Something kinda weird going on in Colorado. Some group is going around to public/government buildings with video cameras and walking into any place or office that is not posted as ‘Authorized personnel only’ and videoing everything and everyone. Google is failing me or I would post links.
Well, that’s their right. But their game is to get kicked out and suing. First Amendment rights and all that.
I work GIS for small county government. Our department gets legitimate visitors a few times a week asking us legitimate questions. My department, GIS prides itself as being a place where we do great public service. A real ‘The Buck Stops Here’ attitude. If we can’t answer your question, we will for sure find someone that can.
If someone want’s to video me while I’m tapping away on my computer, well, I suppose that’s their right. It’s a public building, therefor my office is a public place.
:sigh:
So now we are putting up Authorized Personnel Only signs on all doors that lead to offices or departments. And keypad locks. We are gonna need a doorbell too.
It’s probably not a bad idea from a safety standpoint, considering the nutballs that seem to be running around, makes me sad though. Really, with all the shit going on, must you add to it? Get a fucking hobby.
I am not seeing anything on this either, but, given your description, unfortunately, that’s the reaction that they probably wanted.
If they walked around and filmed you tapping away, or your colleague looking at reports, they’d eventually get bored and go away. By getting kicked out, and by now having access restricted, they can get their conspiracy hats on and claim that you are hiding things from them.
As friedo says, you know where everything is, and that can sound nefarious, especially when you start locking doors and “hiding” from the public.
At the same time, people are inspired by the actions of James Okeif (maybe wrong spelling, but I don’t care about him enough to check) to get footage of people so that they can edit into their own narrative, so keeping them out of work areas is probably a good idea.
This is fascinating. I didn’t know people stooped to this commonly. I knew about that make-believe church that was really a law firm and hassled people at funerals to gen up lawsuits, but assumed it was extremely rare.
This is also interesting as we’ve had a spate of people filming houses and yards in our neighborhood. We share a lot of security videos with each other and about a month ago there was a series of people driving up to houses, getting out with video cams and walking around filming what they could, including house, yards, and what could be seen through windows. They even filmed over the tops of backyard fences, but none seemed to climb over and enter. We never figured out their purpose, and the few times someone was home* and confronted them they fled.
*seemed to be concentrating on houses that were unoccupied during the day, or those that appeared that way.