First Amendment Auditors

First Amendment Auditors  

First Amendment Auditors will prepare city employees to communicate, de-escalate, and properly interact with activists wishing to get an extreme response to their presence and video recording of public entity personnel and assets. Participants will view examples of proper and improper responses to persons recording public entities. Policy and procedure examples will be reviewed and there will be an in-depth discussion of how society has arrived at this point, where everyone with an agenda and a camera can call themselves a journalist.

Objectives:

• Understand what rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment
• Identify types of individuals who consider themselves First Amendment auditors
• Recognize proper and improper responses  to First Amendment auditors
• Will be made familiar with recent events that have propelled First Amendment auditors to high levels of public exposure

By providing fresh perspectives and interactive learning opportunities, TMLIRP training can benefit employees of cities and other entities throughout Texas.