Professor of Business Law John Winn, JD, LLM, recently published an article, in the Spring edition of the North Carolina State Bar Journal.
The article addresses so-called 鈥淔irst Amendment Auditing,鈥 a type of social activism that assesses community responses to constitutionally protected video recordings in public spaces.
According to Dr. Winn, self-identified 鈥渋ndependent journalists鈥 film inside post offices, police parking lots, Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) waiting rooms or other public spaces to provoke police overreach and to generate revenue on social media uploads.
When undertrained or unsuspecting police take the bait, demanding identification or press credentials, auditors respond by goading police into unlawful detentions, arrests, or using unnecessary force. This inevitably leads to civil rights lawsuits in federal courts.鈥
John Winn, JD, LLM, Professor of Business Law, School of Business
Winn鈥檚 article has garnered significant attention from law firms involved in municipal insurance and defense. One such firm, incorporated Winn鈥檚 article into future education and client advisement with dozens of police and sheriff鈥檚 offices across North Carolina.
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