Chris0nllyn
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Tina Moore, NY Post "Police Bureau Chief", got a hold, and tweeted, crime scene photos of a shooting in the City.
The NYPD decided to go to Twitter and demand they turn over "all device and contact information associated with the user handle @Tinamoorereport, as well as all the handle’s connection history between Oct. 9 and Oct. 14. "
https://nypost.com/2020/02/13/nypd-...rters-twitter-account-citing-anti-terror-law/
Now, NY State has a "shield law" that says,
But more oddly, and more a sign of the times with our modern police force, the NYPD cited two things that would give them the authority to demand that info.
One being a basic law that allows them to issue subpoenas, and the second being.....The Patriot Act.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6776845/Nypd-Subpoena.pdf
The NYPD says the Patriot Act gives them the authority to demand info from a journalist who tweeted leaked pictures of a crime scene that, by all accounts, is in no way related to terrorism.
The NYPD decided to go to Twitter and demand they turn over "all device and contact information associated with the user handle @Tinamoorereport, as well as all the handle’s connection history between Oct. 9 and Oct. 14. "
https://nypost.com/2020/02/13/nypd-...rters-twitter-account-citing-anti-terror-law/
Now, NY State has a "shield law" that says,
https://www.nyclu.org/en/legislation/legislative-memo-journalist-shield-lawNew York’s Shield Law codifies the privilege, arising under the First Amendment, that protects professional journalists from compulsory disclosure of confidential sources contacted or materials obtained in the course of gathering information for public dissemination.
Under New York law a professional journalist is defined as one who is engaged in “….gathering, preparing, collecting, writing, editing, filming, taping or photographing of news intended for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association or wire service or other professional medium or agency which has as one of its regular functions the processing and researching of news intended for dissemination to the public…”
But more oddly, and more a sign of the times with our modern police force, the NYPD cited two things that would give them the authority to demand that info.
One being a basic law that allows them to issue subpoenas, and the second being.....The Patriot Act.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6776845/Nypd-Subpoena.pdf
The NYPD says the Patriot Act gives them the authority to demand info from a journalist who tweeted leaked pictures of a crime scene that, by all accounts, is in no way related to terrorism.